Works > Knocking Where a Door Once Stood (2025)
Group Exibition at Jeonnam Museum of Art
Gwangyang, South Korea
Gwangyang, South Korea
I Eat My Own Tale (When a Dining Table Becomes Theater), 2025, Wood, Metal, Wipaeham, Bell, Belt, Commission Work for Jeonnam Museum
Detail View of <I Eat My Own Tale (When a Dining Table Becomes Theater) (2025)>
Performance <A Symphony of Ghostly Matters: Voice, Cry, Flesh> (2025)
Tik Tok, 2025, Wipaeham, Metronome
Detail View of <I Eat My Own Tale (When a Dining Table Becomes Theater) (2025)>
Video Documentation of TikTok(2025)
Detail View of Tik Tok(2025)
Exhibition View
The Jeonnam Provincial Museum of Art's Young Artists' Exhibition , " When Knocking on the Vanished Door ," examines the process by which boundaries are formed and dismantled through the function of memory , and explores this through various media and formative approaches .
Memories are accumulated through personal experiences and collective history , through which spaces and objects are given specific meanings . However, memories are not fixed , but are constantly reconstructed and changed through the process of selective storage and interpretation , and sometimes disappear into oblivion . While specific places become spaces of collective memory when combined with historical events , unrecorded traces gradually blur the boundaries . Memory is not simply the preservation of the past , but it constructs narratives and connects the past and present , while also creating invisible boundaries through excluded elements .
This exhibition examines how new identities and narratives are created as memories construct and expand boundaries , and explores how the interaction between memory and boundaries is visualized and reconstructed . In doing so, it seeks to reveal that memory is not simply a reflection of the past , but a dynamic process that shapes the present and anticipates the future .
Participating artists Kay Yoon , Lee Chang-hyun , and Jo Eun-sol view memory not as a simple record of the past , but as a dynamic force that reconstructs the present and promotes change . They set and break down boundaries at the same time , encouraging the audience to recall their own experiences and explore new sensory layers . Memories serve as an important element in forming the identity and sense of belonging of individuals and communities , and the process of looking at them again expands beyond a simple change in form to an act of asking who we are and where we belong . The sensory and emotional experiences created through the works allow the audience to reconstruct their own memories , go beyond familiar boundaries, and discover new perspectives and narratives .
Kay Yoon explores the relationship between space and invisible boundaries . The artist is interested in how personal experiences and cultural elements create sensory changes when they meet a specific space . His work does not simply recall the past , but rather becomes a passage connecting the present and the future . In the museum, he emphasizes physical experience and allows us to experience how memories are formed and changed .
Lee Chang-hyun explores history and identity through the relationship between the body and clothing . Clothing is not simply an object , but an important element that connects individuals and society . The wrinkles and seams , and the process of remaking and dismantling clothing, resemble the way memories accumulate and change . The work shows how we preserve and change memories through the body , and suggests that museums should not simply be places to store the past , but spaces to reconstruct memories .
Eunsol Jo has continued to explore the organic connection between memory and existence , and the cyclical structure of life . Her work breaks down the boundaries between body and space , human and non-human , life and non-life , and explores the ways in which new identities and sensory experiences are formed in the process of existence being constantly created and dismantled .
The artist's work views humans not as independent entities , but as beings within an organic flow that is constantly transforming and expanding , and emphasizes that life, the environment , and matter operate within a network of interconnected relationships .
This exhibition views memory not as a simple record , but as a process of creating and breaking down boundaries . We live in the present by recalling the past , and create the future . When Knocking on the Vanished Door helps the audience recall their own experiences through the work and look at them from a new perspective . Ultimately , this exhibition will be a place to explore how art expands and changes memory . Through this, we will be able to think about how to produce and reinterpret memories .
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sound사운드: Jun Bae 배준현 (CCEE Studio)
choreographer 안무가: Beomseok Jung 정범석
performer퍼포머: Beomseok Jung 정범석, Sejin Park 박세진, Minjung Kang 강민정, Kay Yoon 케이윤
styling스타일리스트: Minsun Kim 김민선
art advisory예술 자문: Teresa Retzer 테레사 레처
shima 시마