DOOSAN Gallery New York is pleased to announce The Flesh and the Book, a solo exhibition of Jaye Rhee, from May 16 to June 15, 2013. The exhibition occupies her four-channel video and installation which explores the intersections between performance, the moving image, and sound installation.

Rhee render the human body as minimalist shapes that convey an improvisational selection of 'notes' within a musical composition co-created with Elliott Sharp and the original dancers of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, which it concluded its farewell in 2011. The dancers' movements, both choreographed and organic, shift horizontally across the row of screens. The dancers perform within five thick rubber bands that are suspended at different heights yet are equidistant from each other. At times, the movements flow synchronically with the sound while in other moments the relationship between the visual and aural becomes a series of independent juxtapositions.

The movements of dancer in three-dimensional space transform into two dimensional musical notes in the screen. While the loss of interpretation in the spaceship occurs, the spatial extent, depth, and its dimensional scale has emphasized through the occurrence of the movements. In The Flesh and the Book, formation and deconstruction of visual or aural elements consecutively appear, disappear and repeat. Throughout her works, Rhee commemorates Merce Cunningham and the dancers from his dismantled dance company and highlights on the historicity of their body and its Zeitlichkeit.

Jaye Rhee was born in 1973 in Seoul, Korea. She received her M.F.A and B.F.A from School of The Art Institute of Chicago. She has completed Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and artists residency program in Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. She has had solo exhibitions at Cais Gallery (Seoul, KR, 2010), Stephan Stoyanov Gallery (New York, US, 2010), Corridor Gallery (New York, US, 2010), KCCLA (Los Angeles, 2009) and Gallery Factory (Seoul, KR, 2007). Her works have also been included in the Norton Museum of Art (2012, Florida, US), Mori Museum of Art (2012, Tokyo, JP) CU Art Museum (2012, Colorado, US), Seoul Museum of Art (2011, Seoul KR), and St. Cecilia(2010, New York, US).