
Hye Rim Lee Swan Lake (still) 2025. 3D animation. 3D generalist: Steven Stringer. Courtesy of the artist
2 August – 23 November 2025
An immersive, dreamlike digital reinterpretation of the classic Tchaikovsky ballet.
Shimmering swans glide across a rippling, dreamlike lake, opening a luminous world of transformation and transcendence. Exploring themes of healing and eternity, Hye Rim Lee’s resplendent new large-scale animation offers a richly layered narrative of memory, identity and spiritual journey.
Hye Rim Lee is an acclaimed Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland-based digital artist with over two decades of international practice. She was born in Seoul, South Korea, into a family immersed in the performing arts. Her transformative reimagining of the ballet resonates with emotional complexity and visual splendour, bringing forth a world of mesmerising spectacle and performance.
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Curator:
Ken Hall -
Exhibition number:
1177