All in the Game: The Art of Jaye Moon
December 17, 2015 – January 16, 2016
BRICK LANE
Jandari Ro 3 Gil 10 (Seo Gyo Dong 395-2) Mapo Gu, Seoul, Korea
Tel. +82.2.6730.1989
During the past forty years, some three hundred million children have played with Lego, and it is estimated that in the course of a single year these children spend five billion hours amid the bricks. At last count, Lego had filled the world with a hundred and eighty-nine billion molded elements. Most of them, given the unbreakable longevity of the product, must still be in circulation. Half, as far as I can make out, are in my attic.
Anthony Lane’s rundown of some of the remarkable facts associated with Lego in his 1998 New Yorker essay “The Joy of Bricks” is an entertaining reminder of the toy’s ubiquity, a quality that Jaye Moon picked up on when she began using the toy as a medium around the same time. Starting out by assembling “Lego soups, cakes, abacuses, and other things,” the Brooklyn-based artist moved on to the production of sculptures with a sharp political edge. This group includes Target I (1997), in which the figure of a Native American is pinned against Lego roadway components in a pointed allusion to racial conflict, and America (2000), in which a row of tiny guns, swords, and daggers conjures a similar blend of playfulness and violence.
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