Seo Hye Lee, Portland Forecast, 2024.
The Conch is a unique event at which artists share work in progress. The audience is invited to share their reactions, thoughts and feedback.
This edition of The Conch explores experiences of sound and the impact of sonic occurrences on the body.
Camille Brée explores presence and sentience, focusing on the unseen connections between spaces. She is drawn to thresholds, ghostly light, and energy flows.
Zhuo Mengting will share a segment from her new performance lecture on the relationship between sound, space and scenography. Using vocalisations and site-specific activation, she will continue to explore the invisible thresholds in emptiness.
Seo Hye Lee will present a series of textile works that examine the interpretation of soundscape as a cochlear implant user. Drawing from a catalogue of observed sounds, the artist translates these into embroidered pieces using sewing and repeating threads to show the passage of time.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
CAMILLE BRÉE
Camille Brée (b. 1992, FR) is a Paris-based artist and an active member of DOC!, a self-managed space dedicated to artistic production and dissemination in Paris.
Brée’s practice explores the physical specificities of places through sculpture, creating forms that shape interactions with the body. She focuses on peripheral spaces, investigating presence and apparition. Often incorporating light, shadow, and transparency, her work challenge conditions of visibility while shifting the viewer’s perception.
Her work has recently been exhibited at Le Théâtre Scène Nationale de Mâcon (2024, Mâcon, FR), Frac Île-de-France Le Plateau (2023, Paris), Omstand (2023, Arnhem, NL), Image/Imatge (2023, Orthez, FR), TONUS (2023, Paris), Galeria Madragoa (2022, Lisbon), Des Bains Gallery (2022, London), Château Jolimont (2022, Brussels), CAPC (2022, Bordeaux). She is currently a resident at Gasworks, supported by Fluxus Art Projects (2025, London).
ZHUO MENGTING
Zhuo Mengting (b. Guangzhou, China, 1990) composes situations with site, sound, body and time, in the forms of performance, participatory installation, and concerts. Often minimalist, subtle and intimate, her work invites the audience to investigate the capacities and limits of social relations.
Employing live performance as a means to explore the contingent interplay between performer and audience, she has made encounters with audiences in theatres, galleries and other spaces, including public spaces, abandoned buildings, residential accommodation, and online.
Her work has been presented internationally, including the Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong, Shanghai PSA, China, MAO Torino, Italy, Frieze London, esea contemporary, Manchester and venues and organisations in Germany, Netherlands, Czech Republic and Slovakia.
SEO HYE LEE
Seo Hye Lee (she/her) is a London 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 Volumes, 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: 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).
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ACCESS
- Event is seated.
- This event will be live-captioned.
- There is no break out space but participants are welcome to take breaks before and after presentations
- Room may be dark at times to show presentations.
- Wheelchair access and disabled toilets are available at this site.
- Please contact lily@southlondongallery.org with access requirements.
TICKET INFORMATION
- Tickets are limited and sold online through Eventbrite.
- If an event is sold out, there may still be tickets on the door. These will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis and are not guaranteed.
- Please note the South London Gallery’s terms and conditions.
- All tickets purchased through the South London Gallery’s website and/or the South London Gallery’s Eventbrite account are non-refundable.