WHEN BEAUTY IS IN THE WRONG PLACE

Undress House explores what lies beneath the surface of what we consider normal.
Its work begins by questioning the conventions that shape our sense of function, beauty, and form.
By looking beneath these layers, the studio searches for moments when beauty seems to appear in the wrong place, where contradiction reveals another way of seeing.
In WHEN BEAUTY IS IN THE WRONG PLACE, furniture becomes a medium to reframe beauty through displacement and friction.
The works combine elements that seem incompatible, such as cold and warm, connected and restrained, resting and tense, revealing how beauty shifts when taken out of its expected context.
Undress House sees beauty not as a fixed ideal but as something that emerges through misplacement.
Within this friction, beauty does not disappear; it transforms into new forms and questions that arise from within. Each piece reflects how both objects and humans can hold multiple and opposing truths at once, suggesting that beauty may exist not in perfection, but in the space where opposites meet.

Jaeho Lee is a Korean artist working through his studio Undress House.
His practice examines the tension between function and perception, using furniture as a site where beauty can feel misplaced. Rather than seeking perfection, he focuses on moments where ideas collide and meanings slip from their expected places. Through these contradictions, his work reveals how new forms of beauty and thought can emerge from what seems out of place.