We May Be Separated Like Islands, But

10.12-16.02.2025
@daegueartfactory


The water that constitutes our bodies, just as it was once part of other bodies, rivers, and lakes long ago, may one day form seas and ponds in the distant future. In the vast timeline of water, this fleeting body will return there, falling as rain and seeping into other beings.

Through the lens of water, everything circulates and interconnects. However, people who have over time based their thinking on imaginary lands have constructed concepts such as linear time, history, arbitrary boundaries, and national borders. While they took from each other and built barriers, countless lines were drawn acrossmaps. The exhibition We May Be Separated Like Islands, But, proposes thinking with water to cross these drawn lines, remember the deep and unknowable ancestral time beyond narrated history, and connect it to the present and future.

The exhibition title, We May Be Separated Like Islands, But, is excerpted from the artist's note on the performance Muljil by the theatre company "Elephants Laugh," with the original sentence ending "we are immersed in the same sea." If we think and flow like water, everything is not an isolated entity but a medium of constant circulation.

기획 Curators
Yeni Ma @yeni.ma.7
Doy Kim@doykim.work
Fee Yuni Hoayun Chung @yuni_hoayun_chung




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