Korean artist Jung Lee is showing her first exhibition in Dubai. Lee has two series—Day and Night and Aporia, which translates as “coming to a dead end” in Greek.

The Aporia series was inspired by Roland Barthes’s A Lover’s Discoursem which tells the story of the ineptitudes of people in love. According to Barthes, when one falls in love the beloved becomes a mystery and one will ceaselessly try to figure out the reasons for their mysterious feelings.

I don’t necessarily agree with the pessimistic outlook of Barthes but I do find these neon installations somewhat haunting and ultimately beautiful.

Lynsay