Solo Exhibition · January 2026
Mnemosis: Memory and Form
KOIK Contemporary — Mexico City, Mexico
MNEMOSIS brings together natural pigments, cast glass, and bioplastic sculptures in a meditation on how materials encode and release memory. The exhibition features three installation walls presenting works created across multiple residencies and geographies — from the Arctic to Latin America. Each material carries its origin story: glass trapping air from the moment of making, bioplastics embodying the starch of local grains, pigments extracted from the earth of specific places.
Michel Serres once described time as a crumpled handkerchief — points that seem distant in sequence suddenly touch when the fabric folds. Lee's work operates within this folded temporality, where geological time, personal memory, and material process collapse into a single gesture. The mountains of Mesoamerica were not simply landscape but altepetl — 'water-mountain,' the axis mundi around which communities organized life, ritual, and memory. Lee's sculptures and pigment works carry this same weight: they are not representations of place but concentrations of it. Old are the mountains, and still they grow green.
Featured Works
- Memories and Forms I
- Memories and Forms II
- Memories and Forms III
- Memories and Forms IV
- Attempt to Empty My Mind — Video installation