Portland Forecast, 2023
Moving image
10 min 48 seconds
Seo Hye Lee (she/her) is a UK based South Korean deaf artist. Drawing on her personal experience of hearing loss and of being a cochlear implant user, Seo Hye explores a world of sound and silence through the mediums of drawing, moving image, and multi-sensory installation. Recent works include her moving image piece Portland Forecast,which examines the use of captions in different access modes, Many Shapes of Volume, which explores the physical nature of sound, and How Loud Is Too Loud?, which investigates the use of AI in hearing technology. In her work, Seo Hye aims to promote the use of accessibility and collaboration, frequently finding inspiration in the collective and individual experience of sound.
Her recent selected group exhibitions include: Design and Disability in V&A(2025), In a Manner of Speaking in Blackwood Gallery(2025), Towards New Worlds at MIMA(2024), Object Sensations in Tangled Art + Disability(2024), and AI: Who’s Looking After Me? At Science Gallery(2024).