ミウラ・ジョンミン、キム・ダンビ、キム・ギョンウン、チェ・ソンイ、ソン・ホジョン、イ・カンヒ

Miura Jongmin, Kim Danbi, Kim Gyeongeun, Choi Songee, Sohn HoJung, Lee Kanghee and another 5 artists

“A voice was heard from a dead home.
I wrote down its call.
Perhaps we have opened a strange door—one that will never close again.”

This exhibition is a group show featuring six artists from Korea. Each work unfolds a distinct narrative: traces found in abandoned houses; memories from sites of protest; the lingering tensions and afterimages of familial discord; violent modern histories that cast long shadows over families; childhood aspirations toward science that later collide with the reality of involvement in the military-industrial complex; and escapist self-images that seek distance from imposed forms of belonging.

Even after closing the door and leaving a home behind, memories from that time persist, stubbornly following us. Each time the door opens, we are confronted again with the history of violence, and with identities that wander through empty houses without ever fully converging. The home becomes the nation.

The memories formed—almost against our will—on the path toward adulthood are entwined with the singular stories of each home. By gathering these unavoidable narratives, we begin to recognize the generational anxieties embedded within them, as well as the ways they are bound to specific historical and national contexts. Yet the point of departure for all of these stories remains the home, ultimately leading us toward its most intimate space: the room.

Returning, now as adults, to the homes we once left behind, we may find ourselves encountering a form of anxiety that can be shared visually and sensorially—beyond the boundaries of nation and language.

The door to the room is open just enough that it is impossible to tell whether it is closed or ajar. In that narrow gap, anxiety and hope drift, indistinct and unresolved.