Capsule and Klemm’s are excited to announce the solo project ‘Underland’ by Leelee Chan in a joint booth at Asia NOW Paris, running between 22 and 26 October. ‘Underland’ unites key threads of Chan’s practice—from wall-based works and her Present Relics series to her first bronze sculpture, Wood Wide Web (Unearth). This new body of work delves into what lies beneath: hidden systems, buried histories, and the material interconnections between the natural and the artificial.
At the heart of the presentation is Wood Wide Web (unearth), a striking lost-wax cast bronze made from manipulated fragments of found shipping pallets. The work draws inspiration from the mycorrhizal networks that allow trees to communicate underground, creating a poetic parallel to the above-ground global economic systems of pallets. With its patina that recalls ancient Chinese bronzes and root-like forms, the work bridges the architectural with the organic, casting a spotlight on invisible infrastructures—ecological, industrial, and historical.
