Exhibition Information

			I paused at the door and looked back.
that obscure area with blurred boundaries
 
<House of the Day, House of the Night>

Not long after moving into Cheongju Art Creation Studio, I happened to find a mint-colored frame faded by accident. There was no fancy decoration, nor was there any nice paintings or photographs to draw attention to. The iron core used to assemble the frame, which is likely to give a slight glimpse of the abandoned time, was the only reason why it was just a blurry emerald mint color, which is unknown whether it had faded due to the rusty red powder or the heavy dust.
Since then, coincidentally, we have seen a fairly large amount of frames thrown away from the recycling bin of apartments around the studio.
It contains paintings of landscape paintings, works full of origami, and Hahoe mask models decorated with grotesque expressions from the size of a child's palm to a frame much larger than the height of an adult. But the most eye-catching was the ones whose contents were removed and only the frame frames were discarded. The abandoned frame may contain some exotic scene in the past, a cozy moment of family life, a listing celebrating someone's hard work, and a photo of him drawing someone.
So I picked up the abandoned frames, and one by one, shook off the old dust, and tried some funny imaginations.
Whether imagining the owner's taste with the color or decoration of the frame, the place where the frame was placed according to the size of the frame, the structure of the room, or the size of the room, the objects that had already lost practicality and were discarded to the full extent of their value, came to me as a medium that allowed me to imagine a world in which the boundary between the past and present was blurred.
The frame became a small drawer, a mirror, a chair, a soccer ball, and a broom.

Such blurring and ambiguity has become the dwelling place.   


<House of the Day, House of the Night> is a reference from the title of a book by Polish author Olga Tokarck, who is a narrator of a novel that has just settled in a small town in Poland, who spends her time with her husband in town, observing and talking about the mysterious and secret affairs of various neighbors and villages. The village she watched is a world that is stuck between reality and dreams, a place where strange and incomprehensible things happen, and a place where the boundaries between reality and dreams have disappeared.
As a stranger and traveler who had just settled in a city called Cheongju like the protagonist of a novel while staying at the Cheongju Art Creation Studio, sometimes the space of the studio itself seemed to be the home of vague boundaries, stuck between reality and dreams. Through the Day House, Night's House, the exhibition will show the overlaid memory of cities where writers stayed outside of Cheongju, while at the same time searching for abandoned objects outside of the studio, surrounding apartments and Cheongju to share traces of time and space recorded in the form of collections, transformations and displays.