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    Wall of Fame (detail)
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    Wall of Fame (detail), Annie Lee, 2024 - ongoing, Framed photographs of various restaurant visitors with the chef, including white males Ryan Gosling, Jacob Elordi, and Paul Mescal. Part of a wider restaurant installation/experience. Dimensions infinite.

    ©the artist

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    Potato bowl
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    Potato bowl, Annie Lee, 2024, glazed handbuilt earthenware. 15 x 12 x 5 cm

    ©the artist

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    Restaurant (post-performance documentation)
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    Restaurant (post-performance documentation), Annie Lee, 2024, interactive stageplay script extracts double-functioning as meals and menus, handmade ceramic dishes, cutlery, breadcrumbs, soup stained tablecloth, napkins, happy fulfilled bellies, pondering minds.

    ©the artist

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    ABC soup, compliments to the chef
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    ABC soup, compliments to the chef, Annie Lee, 2024, chef’s own take on an ABC soup, the sounds of vegetables simmering away softly, soothing and soupy smells wafting about, a peek of a hardground etching on a stainless-steel spoon. Accompanied by fresh homemade bread, recipe, and performance by request. Dimensions edible, duration approximately 1 hour 20 minutes

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    Rolling pin for parent and child (with vegan ‘char siu’ bao on the side)
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    Rolling pin for parent and child (with vegan ‘char siu’ bao on the side), Annie Lee, 2024, woodturned soft pine. Activated by hands, memories, family, talking, and time. Accompanied by flour, sugar, baking powder, yeast, oil, water, mushrooms, tofu knots, tamari, dark soy sauce, hoisin sauce, sesame oil, salt, white onion, garlic, ginger, vegetarian mushroom stir fry sauce, Chinese five spice, cornstarch, steam, and everything in between.

    ©the artist

Annie Lee – BA/BFA

Based in London, often in bed.
My practice spans cooking, pranking people, and holding (introverted) celebrations, with participatory performance, writing, and installation… amongst other media such as photography, drawing, printmaking, and ceramics. I am interested in relationships between people, bodies, and environments, and the normative ideas and frameworks that we encounter every day. My work uses humour, silliness, and discomfort to reckon with deep feelings of (not) (be)longing, otherness, and awkwardness. I approach making work with Rest and Care in mind, which often manifests itself in multi-sensory, ‘fun’, and very-hard-to-describe-but-hopefully-in-a-poetic-kind-of-way experiences.