We made the tools to bring wet words home — Valerie Tee Lee

We made the tools to bring wet words home

1. Red Body, 2023–2025
Audio loop, single-channel speaker installation, 04:01
A layered playback of sounds from the Icelandic sea and readings of poems written while collecting agar along Korea’s eastern coast

2. Red Watery Vessels, 2025
Red agar and agar bleached by natural exposure, salt, water, agar powder, gelatin powder, glycerin, food coloring, silk thread, red LED strip lights, recycled plastic tubes
Variable dimensions

3. My Body Holds the Memory of Water, 2025
Red agar and bleached agar, water, agar powder, gelatin powder, glycerin, fishing lines, fishing nets
Variable dimensions

4. Archive of Water's Memory (1), 2019–2025
Photographs taken along various coastal regions
C-print, 8.9 × 12.7 cm

5. Archive of Water's Memory (2): Reading Room
Dictee – Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Parable of the Sower – Octavia E. Butler, An Oceanic Feeling: Cinema and the Sea – Erika Balsom, The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction – Ursula K. Le Guin, etc

_{Artists: Valerie Tee Lee
Curator: Jaea Kim
Photography: Sunjin Park}