Joyce Lee - Archive

Archive is Barons latest collection of Joyce Lees artworks, following the debut publication titled after the artist. This book contains 150 images from Lees body of work and offers a look into the lush, sensual and strange worlds the artist creates. The human body is almost always at the centre of Lees work and is often transformed into objects that are suggestive of human body parts, such as penis-shaped mushrooms and vulvic flowers that spit out sticky pearls. These surreal transformations move the viewer away from reality and into imaginary spaces, where desire and the bodys experience of pleasure are the main focus. Over-the-top sexuality is combined with visual gags to lend the images a bizarre and obscene sense of humour. The exaggerated campness of Lees work is joyful, mixing comedy with sex and working against the idea that art has to be serious.

Published by BARON.