Animatus - A term used to define the stage when an embryo shows animation.

In a studio more akin to a lab than an atelier, South Korean artist Hyungkoo Lee has taken this meaning quite literally. Working to methods which Howard Rutkowski fittingly describes as "pop palaeontology," Lee's exhibits are skeletal forms of much-loved and iconic cartoon characters. Though on the surface this is very clever, highly skilled and funny artwork, it also really rather affectionately explores our deep need to anthropomorphosise creatures and in a sense delicately humanises their much-expended forms.

See more about the process of Lee's Animatus here.