Seoul, b. 1984

Based in Seoul, Lee Heami explores the diverse material qualities of clay. She creates freely formed objects unbound by function, and through the repeated process of silvering their surfaces, she speaks to the accumulation of time and the nature of connection. By hand-building, firing, and layering silver onto her forms, she expresses a condensed beauty and fluid sensibility — works that respond with quiet attunement to the temperature and humidity of a space, drawing the viewer into a sensory dialogue. Lee Heami's practice is an open-ended sculpture that transforms through relationship, always moving toward but never fixing itself at completion.