Event Details
Hye Rim Lee
Floating Dream
14 November - 9 December 2025
Celebration Drinks Friday December 5th, 5-7pm - Open to Public
Floating Dream features selected wall works from the White Rose Animation which was exhibited at Te Papa in 2025.
White Rose features a sprawling digital dreamscape where Hye Rim Lee’s long-time protagonist TOKI floats and spins through hyper-coloured imaginary worlds as she tries to escape the trauma of death and lost love on a journey to find peace. Lee’s practice is iterative and uses binarism and symbolism in the service of her narratives: White Rose was born from Black Rose (2021), which also follows TOKI through a dream world. Lee takes the skeleton of the Black Rose story, which depicts a dystopia, and alters the narrative, setting, and soundscape so that White Rose offers an opportunity for redemption and hope.
