In her works – installations, sculptures, pictorial objects and videos – Jeewi Lee explores traces, memory and temporality, as well as natural processes and materials. In Where Fragments Linger by the Sea, the artist turns her attention to the theme of ‘sand’, which is both universal and highly topical.

In the exhibition, sand functions on the one hand as an artistic material from which Jeewi Lee creates sculptures and abstract sand paintings. On the other hand, individual grains of sand – from coastal locations such as Taean-bando (Korea), New York and Connecticut (USA), Alentejo (Portugal), Mallorca (Spain), Dakar (Senegal) and Wilhelmshaven (Germany) – take centre stage as small and large-scale sculptures. These tiny grains of sand form the starting point of a complex CT scanning and sand-printing process through which the monumental works are created and then meticulously finished by hand. In this process, the delicate and unique structures of each grain are revealed, each bearing distinctive testimony to origin, time and landscape. In addressing the complex geometric and constructive aspects of this process, Jeewi Lee collaborates with the geometric researcher Phillip C. Reiner, with whom she develops her sand sculptures and silkscreen prints.

Images: Jeewi Lee (in collaboration with Phillip C. Reiner), “Where Fragments Linger by the Sea”, 2026, installation views, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven.
Photos: Edward Greiner

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