The installation for Hanok space in 2021 aimed to create a Seoul that is completed together with citizens. The hexagonal modules that each person thinks of are visualized as fragments of memories of Seoul in new memories. “Completing a Kaleidoscope City Together: Seoul” is an art x experiment carried out at Bae Ryeom House, a participatory art project that is completed together with citizens. Through the time of citizen participation, stories of Seoul in each person’s memories and stories of Bae Ryeom House are captured in hexagonal modules. Using this, new citizen-participatory artworks are proposed.

<Songs that we sing along to without knowing> focuses on the existence and necessity of subjective beliefs that individuals practice in their lives. The 16 students of Hongik University’s Department of Oriental Painting participating in the exhibition encounter and visualize the beings that they are unknowingly drawn to and ‘sing along to without knowing’ in their own worlds. Each belief does not stop at a formless concept, but is set before everyone as a fact, in a flat surface or a three-dimensional form. These beliefs become an ‘alternative fact’ in that they provide us with a unique perspective on the strange points of life that are still not resolved despite the clarification of numerous facts provided to us.

<Songs that we sing along to without knowing> focuses on the existence and necessity of subjective beliefs that individuals practice in their lives. The 16 students of Hongik University’s Department of Oriental Painting participating in the exhibition encounter and visualize the beings that they are unknowingly drawn to and ‘sing along to without knowing’ in their own worlds. Each belief does not stop at a formless concept, but is set before everyone as a fact, in a flat surface or a three-dimensional form. These beliefs become an ‘alternative fact’ in that they provide us with a unique perspective on the strange points of life that are still not resolved despite the clarification of numerous facts provided to us.

Kelly Kim, a designer who works with materials and colors, explores the experience created by hanji and space through this exhibition, beyond the material itself. Hanji does not remain as a simple material, but organically changes space by combining with light, wind, and shadow. This change leads to a conversation between the audience, space, and nature, and reminds us of fleeting moments that can easily be overlooked in everyday life. Each work contains the unique texture created by the physical properties of hanji and the production process, and this conveys to the audience the deep lingering feeling of the flow of nature.

J: I saw the picture you uploaded recently. It was cute. Me: Thank you. But cuteness is useless (yet). While I was worrying about the tentative title of this exhibition, 'Knuckleball Practice', and the preface I wrote in advance because it was too boring, I suddenly remembered a conversation I had with my friend J, whom I met recently. Discussions about cuteness have already been widely conducted in various fields throughout society, and I don't know much about it. This exhibition is not trying to define what cuteness is. Therefore, I will state in advance that I am not trying to make fancy claims like 'cuteness wins' or 'cuteness saves the world'. 'Cuteness' is a phenomenon, and 'uselessness' is a judgment. I will emphasize this judgment and write about my thoughts on the process I have gone through so far.

Bukchon, which is crowded with tourists every day, is experiencing difficulties due to the recent 'gentrification' phenomenon, where the existing village residents are losing their places and franchise stores are opening in their place. In order to protect our precious village, the students interviewed the owners of stores that have been with Bukchon Gye-dong for a long time and expressed their feelings in a poem. We hope that you will feel the value of Bukchon and 'our neighborhood' as seen by 71 young poets, along with this book (exhibition) containing poems by all the first-year (now third-year) students of Jungang Middle School.

Part 1. At Play The Naive Side's designs are somewhere between curiosity and play in everyday life, and they are not standardized and sometimes playful. Perhaps such atypicality and unreality are very natural aspects of us that everyone has somewhere in their heart? Part 2. Ephemeral Echoes: Traces of Our Time The Naive Side became a host with the intention of inviting people to meet during the exhibition period, and captured the appearances of stains and traces encountered in everyday life in different materials and objects, and included the fun inspiration that stains give in the invitation. One scene of the invitation they show is filled with objects created with their own witty and emotional design language.

These worlds sometimes bring about small changes to our daily lives that were no different from usual. Our journey, which we have drawn along a predicted path, may be slightly derailed by these small changes and change its future course. The exhibition ≪Cryptesthesia≫ focuses on the influence and possibilities of the world created by artistic imagination on the reality we live in, and how it operates.

Gozunokkan has been working on projects that connect the past with the present, discover values ？？that were not seen before, and suggest new possibilities. <Gozunokkan; Weaving> is an introduction to Gozunokkan’s past year. We hope that these small ‘weavings’ will become part of the knot that connects Korean architecture and Koreanness, and also become the cornerstone of a more profound story that will be told in the future.

From October 21 to November 25, 2023, Saturday afternoons, people who dream of their own space, architecture students, and architects working in the field gathered at Bae Ryeom Gaok to brainstorm about a new space project, ‘Tiki Taka: Building My Home.’ This exhibition is the result of their intense thinking. I wonder what kind of sound and color your ‘Tiki Taka’ will have as you dream of ‘my own space,’ whether it’s building your own home, building your own company, or building your own studio. ‘Tiki Taka: Building My Home’ will continue to visit you at Bae Ryeom Gaok, so please show us lots of interest.