Mai 36 Galerie announced the representation of Maia Ruth Lee (*1983, Busan, South Korea). Maia Ruth Lee’s work explores the shifting landscapes of language, memory and identity within the context of migration and personal mythology. Born in South Korea, raised in Nepal, and having lived in cities as varied as New York and Salida, Colorado, she has developed a visual language that navigates the dislocation and fluidity of cross cultural experience. Her practice spans photography, video, painting, and sculpture, examining lives shaped by precarity and unrootedness—where maps, atlases, and banners serve as markers of movement and, often, of loss. Through translation as a method, Lee moves her work across mediums, linking themes of borders, community, and language with material embodiments of carriers and acts of self-preservation. Lee’s