Installation view of BANG & LEE’s The Place That Has No Name, 2021, three-channel video with stereo sound system, wall text, drawing, 3D animation, 3D printed ceramic sculpture, and round table, dimensions variable, at “Phantasmapolis,” National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, 2021-22. Courtesy the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts. 

“This bleak atmosphere is echoed in Korean duo Bang & Lee (Bang Jayoung and Lee Yunjun)’s installation The Place That Has No Name (2021), which inhabits the disembodied gaze of popular first-person-shooter games in an arid wasteland. With a familiar, frenzied camera suggesting violence—as though a gun could go off at any second—the carcasses of grain silos, shacks, and filling stations are the lone antagonists, with the quiet insinuation of a long and empty future.”

— Christopher Whitfield

(Excerpt from the review Taichung: 2021 Asian Art Biennial, ArtAsiaPacific magazine, ISSUE June 13, 2022)