Visual artist mapping the emotional topography of cities through pentagonal units.

About Me

Through repeated pentagonal units and layered mapping lines, I visualize the emotional density and organic flow embedded within cities.

Artist Biography

Jungyun Lee (Yuni) is a Seoul-based visual artist whose work explores emotional structures embedded within cities. Through repeated pentagonal units, layered mapping lines, and vibrant color systems, she visualizes the density, movement, and accumulation of collective urban emotion.

Working across painting, printmaking, installation, and media, Lee reinterprets the city not as a fixed architectural form but as a living ecosystem shaped by memory, sensation, and human movement.

Her recent series Emotion Code transforms emotional data collected through public participation into abstract visual structures, constructing what she describes as an emotional ecosystem.

Artist Statement

I do not see the city as a fixed structure. It is a flow of existence — constantly changing, layering, and accumulating through time. The city is an organic space shaped by the overlapping strata of memory, emotion, and movement, within which human life and sensation are perpetually unsettled and reconstructed. My practice begins with sensing this fluidity of the urban and the shifting nature of identity within it.

My work unfolds through the repetition and arrangement of a minimal unit: the pentagon. Derived from the simplified silhouette of a house, this form is both the smallest gesture of dwelling and a structural language that reveals how emotion flows and relates. These units connect yet remain independent — occupying space, forming relationships, existing in tension. Through the rhythm of repetition and variation, the density and architecture of the city emerge, along with the layered strata of memory and feeling accumulated within it.

Through vivid color and intuitive structure, I summon the playful sensibility embedded in urban life. The elements of the city on the canvas overlap and intersect, forming a complex, multi-layered structure — not unlike a map. This configuration invites the viewer to perceive the city not as a singular landscape, but as a field of sensation where different times and emotions coexist.

Ultimately, my work is a process of weaving together physical form and the invisible currents of sensation — the memory and identity that move between them. Through pentagonal units, rhythm, and the resonance of color, I construct an emotional topography, exploring the city as a living entity in constant generation and transformation. My paintings are a sensory map — tracing the trajectory of emotion and memory as they migrate through the city.

Archive

Selected Works_Painting

Emotion Code (2025~)