Creation archives to show: exhibition on Suzy Lee’s literary project

Abstract

This essay aims to reflect on Suzy Lee's artistic production. The South Korean author, of international prestige in the field of children and young adults literature with her publications in pictorial narratives, is a book artist who is also constantly stimulating discussions about the book as an art object. In the context of such creative and critical activity, we propose a brief reflection on Lee's communicative practices based on Cecilia Almeida Salles' thoughts, in the specificity that surrounds the creation archives (2010, 2017). By exposing her thought-of-creation indexed through speeches, lectures, interviews, events, publications in her personal blog, and even in her theoretical essay on picture-books (2012), Suzy Lee gives us a sample of the stored and constituents layers of her poetics project.