BOKEUM LEE & PYUNGHWA LEE

사이 둥지 / Nest in Between

OPEN STUDIO



Friday, March 6, 2026

1.00- 5.00 p.m.

im Arbeitszimmer thealit
St.-Jürgen-Str. 157/159 Bremen

During their residency, the sisters are exploring the places they called “home” – and then left behind. As sisters born in Korea and now living in Germany, they describe their relationship to their homes with these words: “[So] we have experienced countless apartments, rooms, and spaces in between. Some of these places remain in our memories, while others fade away, erased physically, linguistically, and emotionally. What does it mean to have had many homes, yet not to have one now? We approach this as a queer practice of memory, rejecting linear narratives. Through fragments, overlaps and gaps in voices, images and juxtapositions, we seek not to rediscover 'home', but to reimagine it from our current perspective. This perspective is shaped by the Korean words we carry with us and the German phrases we now speak. This is not a reconstruction, but a shift and a re-experiencing. Each apartment, table and window takes on new meaning, defined by who we are today and what we have forgotten.”


The sisters think of ‘nest’ as a space and as an artistic concept: "This motif [of the nest] runs like a thread through our artistic practice and stands for an existence in between – between arrival and departure, the familiar and the unfamiliar. Like migratory birds, we build nests as we pass through – temporary structures made of memories, voices, objects, and glances. These nests are not fixed places, but inhabited transitions: temporary locations in the space between, bearing traces of migration, translation, and new beginnings. For a certain period of time, they are inhabited – as fragile forms of closeness in the in-between – and eventually perhaps abandoned again. […] Moving on therefore means not only saying goodbye, but also taking with you experiences, bonds, and traces that help shape every new home.