Topologies For Collapse
Sangmin Lee
August 20 - September 6, 2025
Closing Reception: Saturday, September 6, 6 - 8 pm
Artist Bio
Sangmin Lee is a Korean Canadian interdisciplinary artist who works with memory, place, and its materiality. He has a BFA from OCAD University, an MFA from Columbia University, and has exhibited nationally and internationally ranging from Osaka, Jeongseon, Paris, New York, Miami, Montreal, Toronto, and Dawson City (Yukon). He is the recipient of the OCAD University Project 31 Sculpture/Installation award, with artist grants from Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, and residencies at Vermont Studio Center, NAVE Residency in Ecuador, and NARS Foundation in NYC. Currently, they are a fellow at the Bronx Museum.
Artist Statement
I reimagine personal/historical narratives that speculate on the uncertain spaces between past and present. From drywall peaches, performances unfolding architecture, to life-sized cartoon figures, I converge seemingly disparate things to describe stories of fragmentation. Using materials found in my daily life, I create a tangent of forms that iteratively extend from the slippery ends of their own meaning—becoming a lineage of objects that gradually lose resemblance to one another. A game of broken telephone where new stories emerge through a process of whispers.
Here, I make memories into objects and play within the poetic spaces of this impossibility—visually tracing how we extend memories to fill absence, as the lies we tell ourselves and truths beyond recollection.
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