Lee, S., 2025.

Finding our place in the world; Memory, architecture and the fragment

This presentation revisits Make Place (2017), a practice-based project supported by Arts Council England, to explore how fragmented spaces--both physical and psychological--intersect with memory, identity, and narrative. The work draws on the story of a man building memorial homes for his family on a remote Icelandic peninsula, using this as a starting point to examine how space becomes entangled with personal and collective histories.

Through photography, video, text, and installation--including a half-built house and a speculative spoken-word script--Make Place reflects on how stories are constructed, disrupted, and embodied through creative practice. Developed in dialogue with Kate Goodwin, the project foregrounds the potential of practice-based research to open up new ways of knowing.

These ideas continue to shape my current work, LULL, which explores early motherhood and care work as forms of identity reconfiguration. By working with fragments and unfinished forms, I consider how creative methods might help us reimagine personal narratives and challenge conventional understandings of space, self, and belonging.