LEE Eunsil has explored socially taboo and often suppressed human desires through ink and color on paper. In Surging Waves, she turns her focus to a specific subject: the body of a woman in childbirth. In the exhibition’s foreword, she writes, “Childbirth is an act that embodies both creation and rupture, the dissolution of the self and the expansion of existence.”
While Melusine’s husband, peering through a keyhole, perceived a “monstrous body,” LEE Eunsil renders the physical realities of childbirth with quiet restraint and solemn intensity. She depicts the tearing of flesh, the displacement of organs, and the flow of blood and bodily fluids not as spectacle, but as a direct acknowledgment of the body’s transformative and generative force.
