Rosemary Lee
The Typesetter’s Ruminations
Installation Views

Installation view: Rosemary Lee at Galerie Gilla Loercher 2015
Photo: Cordia Schlegelmilch, courtesy Galerie Gilla Loercher

Installation view: Rosemary Lee at Galerie Gilla Loercher 2015
Photo: Cordia Schlegelmilch, courtesy Galerie Gilla Loercher

Installation view: Rosemary Lee at Galerie Gilla Loercher 2015
Photo: Cordia Schlegelmilch, courtesy Galerie Gilla Loercher
Works

Copper, 2015
Printed circuit board: copper-clad epoxy
20 x 30 cm
Photo: Cordia Schlegelmilch

Copper, 2015
Printed circuit board: copper-clad epoxy
20 x 30 cm
Photo: Cordia Schlegelmilch

Copper, 2015
Printed circuit board: copper-clad epoxy
20 x 30 cm
Photo: Cordia Schlegelmilch

Silicon, 2015
Graphite on Paper
60 x 80 cm
Photo: Cordia Schlegelmilch

Silicon, 2015
Graphite on Paper
60 x 80 cm
Photo: Cordia Schlegelmilch

The Typesetter's Ruminations on Space, 2015
lead type
3 x 44 x 2,4 cm
Photo: Cordia Schlegelmilch, courtesy Galerie Gilla Loercher

The Typesetter's Ruminations on Space, 2015
lead type
3 x 44 x 2,4 cm
Photo: Cordia Schlegelmilch, courtesy Galerie Gilla Loercher and the artist

Graphite, 2015
Lead / Blei
70 x 70 cm
Photo: Cordia Schlegelmilch, courtesy Galerie Gilla Loercher

Graphite, 2015
Lead / Blei
70 x 70 cm
Photo: Cordia Schlegelmilch, courtesy Galerie Gilla Loercher

Diamond, 2015
Graphite on mylar
70 x 70 cm
Photo: Cordia Schlegelmilch

eReader, 2015
eReader screen
Photo: Cordia Schlegelmilch

Silicon/Gold, 2015
Gold leaf, silicon wafer
40 x 40 cm
Photo: Cordia Schlegelmilch, courtesy Galerie Gilla Loercher and the artist
Press Release
/Deconstructing technology down to its components in the series The Typesetter's Ruminations, Rosemary Lee draws connections between electronics, their mineral origins, and alphanumeric code. In text-based images composed of chemical formulas for common elements used in electronic devices, she explores the relationship of coding to the materiality of media. Using the substrate as a medium of expression, the works in the exhibition examine how memory is embedded in material: encoded in silicon, gold, and other elements. The artist mines poetry out of chemical composition and the structure of substances, revealing parallels between computer codes, chemical formulas, and human language.
Rosemary Lee, born 1986 in Providence, USA. She lives and works in Copenhagen. The artist studied from 2004 to 2008 at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts (Paris, France) and at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) (Chicago, USA) (Bachelor of Fine Arts 2008). In 2012 she completed her Master of Fine Arts at the European Graduate School (Saas-Fee, Switzerland).
She received the Ike and Florence Sewell Scholarship and the Graduation Fellowship from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (USA, 2007 and 2008), and received Panmediale Projektförderung (Berlin, Germany, 2012) with her artist collective. In 2014 she received the Vilém Flusser Residency for Artistic Research grant (Berlin) and in 2015 she was awarded the work grant of the Statens Kunstfond (Copenhagen).
Her work has been presented nationally and internationally, among others in (selection): Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago, USA); Heaven Gallery (Chicago, USA); Phaiz (Chicago, USA); Victoria Art Center (Bucharest, RO); Haus der Kulturen der Welt, transmediale (Berlin); Luis Adelantado (Valencia, ES); Palais des Beaux Arts (Vienna, A); Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Copenhagen, Denmark); Gallery Walden (Berlin); Freies Museum (Berlin); Galerie Gilla Lörcher I Contemporary Art (Berlin).