Slow Forms: Site-Specific Installation Art 2026 by Mi-Jeong Lee
Slow Forms moves in listening to our bodily rhythm and conditions, in confluence through tonalities of feeling, living, and thinking — like wave, tree, horizon. It weaves along one’s ecological body-nature movement, unsettling the colonization of time and space demanded by the high-tech, AI-driven, consumptive era. Each piece is consciously carved, passing through an avidly intrinsic, tangible, handmade process, in the care of growing, mending, and decomposing, unceasingly. It revisits our way of life, and recovers it, where still possible — an aesthetics of life and joy, grounded in an explorative and empirical process to navigate a visionary thread of inquiry: why am I here, and for what? I believe this very question is an open entrance to the world we have been seeking.
Slow Forms is a five-year body of work in two phases, unfolding between 2026 and 2030 — moving between phases of exploration and works-in-progress, toward presentation and completion.
The first series of Slow Forms took shape as a series of site-specific installations woven throughout the 13th Montreal Asian International Film Festival (MAiFF), from its opening to its closing (May 8–June 13, 2026). Working with paper, textiles, recycled materials, and living edible plants, these installations invited emerging artists as collaborators — passionate hands who gave their labour behind the scenes, driven by nothing but a care of a collective forth and love of art. Three works-in-progress were presented, each a different piece in line with the MAiFF’s theme of Tangibility: Soil, Body, Story
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