Ahreum Lee
My Mother is Data
VERSION ORIGINALE
My Mother is Data is an ongoing project by Ahreum Lee that explores her relationship with her estranged birth mother, who has only communicated through emails since Lee’s childhood. Triggered by a false report of her death in 2014, the project investigates the profound impact of decontextualized data on intimate connections in our information-saturated world.
The exhibition includes « Memory Palace », a 17-minute video documenting attempts to verify the mother’s status, accompanied by a live-streaming website displaying real-time tweets about motherhood. « My Mother is Data », an 11-minute 3D animation inspired by the Chinese poem « Butterfly Dream », symbolizes the artist’s digital-only connection with their mother. Lastly, the web-based game « Infinite Scroll » metaphorically represents the unattainable nature of certain digital connections. Together, these works explore the fragility and fragmentation of data and their effects on emotional realities in the age of information overload.
BIO
Ahreum Lee is an interdisciplinary media artist from Seoul, South Korea, currently based in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal. She is interested in examining socio-political issues embedded in everyday technologies, such as Google Maps, Predicive Text Algorithms, and AI virtual assistant voices. She uses various media, including video, audio, performance, 3D-printing sculpture, 3D rendered images and stock images from online and web art.
Lee was a finalist for the Emerging Digital Artist Award at EQ Bank and Trinity Square Video in 2019. She has exhibited and performed at various venues, including Arsenal Art Contemporain Montréal, Fonderie Darling, Ada X, Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Ars Electronica Linz), Canadian Culture Center (Paris), Third Shift Festival (Saint John),She and Axis Lab (Chicago). She has participated in the Emerging BAiR program at Banff Art and Creativity Centre, the démART-MTL program at Eastern Bloc, and received the Impression Residency at Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal in 2021.
Exposition
11 janvier au 9 février 2025
Exposition
8 mars au 6 avril 2025
Exposition
3 mai au 1 juin 2025