'SLOW WATER', solo exhibition by artist #SeulgiLee, opens tomorrow, September 8th, at our Brussels gallery space.⠀ ⠀ 'Made in the Korean Nubi tradition (a padded quilting technique), these handmade textile objects were sewn line by line by artisans in Tongyeong according to an over 500 year-old tradition. This quilting technique retains heat by allowing air to circulate through the impressions created by the cotton padding. These blankets were very common in Korean homes until the 1980s. In Seulgi Lee's compositions, the colored strips have been replaced by a more complex geometry. Each blanket operates as a translation from a statement in oral tradition into textile form. If these abstractions bear witness to the dream of a fusion between art and craft envisaged by historical modernism, they also reject, in their reference to functionality, the dream of a pure, intransitive abstraction that emerged in the formalism of the second half of the 20th century.'⠀ – Marjolaine Lévy