In “Things Unstable,” Seung-taek Lee’s aptly titled exhibition here, everyday objects and materials don’t behave as they should. In one work, stones are made to appear weightless, suspended by a web of ropes (Untitled, 1982–2022), or even plush and pillowlike when tightly “bound” by lengths of wire (Tied Stone, 1969). Paper, however, looks ruggedly impervious in the piece Untitled, 1983: Several sheets are crumpled up to contrast with the smooth wooden beams they sit on. The Korean artist has endeavored to collapse entrenched notions of medium since the 1950s, employing the term “non-sculpture”
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