LEE & BAE is pleased to present ‘Traces Woven in Medium’ at Art SG 2025,
an exhibition featuring the works of three artists—Sangmin Lee, Eun Lee, and
Myunggyun You—who explore layered perceptions of time, memory, and
sensation through distinctive media. Their chosen media—glass, clay, fiber, and
mixed media from nature—serve not merely as tools of form-making but as
vessels for sensory memory and existential awareness. The exhibition traces the
imprints embedded within the materiality of medium, highlighting how each
artist’s language resonates through the worlds woven in medium.
Sangmin Lee engages in a meditative process of carving and polishing glass,
investigating the convergence of sensory perception and the condensation of time
into form. For him, glass is not simply a transparent substance, but a material
conduit—a passage toward the intersection of accumulated memory and presence.
Through repetitive, ritual labor on the reverse surface of glass, the artist shapes
forms of porcelain, allowing latent temporal strata and sensory memories to
emerge. The material’s physical interaction with light—its capacity to both reveal
and obscure—further amplifies its presence. Light filters through, reflects off
surfaces, and casts shadows, thereby shaping a spatial dimension beyond the
object itself. In this way, Lee makes visible the liminal boundaries between past
and present, perception and being.
Lee Eun paints the sea with clay. She conveys the sea’s fluidity—its trembling
under wind, its fragmentation under light—by applying blue pigment onto rough,
warped ceramic fragments. Though each clay slab is initially cut to identical
dimensions with rulers and knives, they warp unpredictably in the kiln—
embodying the intervention of time and nature’s quiet order. The landscape,
shaped through repeated firings and layering of pigment, is abstract yet anchored
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in sensory memory. Her sea does not depict a specific scene; it reflects a
subjective encounter—a projection of memory, shaped by personal experience.
For the artist, the sea embodies both the point of departure from a former life
and an emotional anchor that helps her endure the present. Her work presses
time into clay and sculpts memory into tactile form.
Myunggyun You explores the boundaries of self and the diffusion of sensation
through fiber and mixed materials from nature. Rooted in a questioning of
selfhood, his practice gestures toward an uncontrollable, expansive self that
dissolves into the larger rhythms of nature. His works, composed of intricately
entangled materials imbued with traces of time and memory accumulated in the
earth—the origin of all things—evoke forests or vegetation. Transcending the
dichotomy of the two-dimensional and three-dimensional, they radiate a density
and vitality as if a fragment of nature itself has been brought into the space. In
this way, the work becomes a spatial entity, enveloping the viewer. In observing
these organic forms, the viewer perceives the otherwise intangible sprawl of
nature, and in doing so, senses the self as part of an infinite ecological
continuum
