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"My thesis is about exploring curiosity and fantasy embedded in a way of hiding and showing and process of translating into my own language," says the designer, who started his project from his interest on hidden spaces in old buildings.
His focus then shifted, and he started exploring the concepts of hiding and showing. "I could observe various cases in research about basic human desires of showing and hiding and the combination between them," he states.
"These two antithetical values form an interesting combination when they coexist and conflict simultaneously," Lee continues. "If something is shown or hidden completely, there is no fantasy or mystery or curiosity anymore. Therefore, my work aims to leave a room for the viewers to imagine. In other words, I want to make an object that reveals as well as conceals at the same time."
Hak Min Lee's Reveal and Conceal will be on display through 28 October at the Design Academy Eindhoven 2012 graduation show, as part of the program of Dutch Design Week, in Eindhoven.
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