My practice is a meeting of imaginations— somewhere between architecture and ornamentation, in the margins of lived experience and around the edges of nostalgia, as nostalgia without memory.
I create sculptural propositions drawing from a collection of objects that consider the processes from studio, exhibition, storage, daily life, and beyond.
If the process to object is a story of becoming, then I drift along the tangents of its making. It is to make insulation foam into water, then flesh of fruit, back to substrate and on. To make borders into branches, once closed systems porous, overlapping— to create abundance with less, expanding possibilities, as non-linear, as pluralities, and even contradictions. Collapsible architecture is re/arranged with tangential objects to propose a constellation amid uncertainty. They are ecosystems unrooted. Still lives in transition, displaced, and arranged again seeking stillness. While their histories become lost in translation, in its place new stories emerge.
My current interests begin within this contradiction between the weight of carrying histories forward and the adaptability necessary for continuity.
Nostalgia without memory (Joint compound, white glue, printer paper, inkjet transfer, watercolor, rebar tie-wire, glass, wood, brass, and a loofah, 2021–2023)
Sangmin Lee
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