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2021.5.1(Sat) - 2021.8.29(Sun)

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팬데믹 시대 예술로 오늘의 집과 내일의 삶을 다시 생각하다
참여작가ㅣ민성홍, 박관택, 이창훈, 조재영, 황문정, EUS+

블루메미술관은 2021년 포스트 팬데믹 시리즈 두번째 전시로 <집에서 집으로>를 기획하였다. 5명의 현대미술작가 그리고 건축가와 함께 8점의 설치작품들을 통해 집을 돌아보고자 한다. 코로나19 이후 집과 미술관의 거리는 더 멀어졌다. 그래서 미술관 안에 집을 짓는다. 집에 대한 생각을 다시 지어본다. 모든 것이 집으로 모이고 있다. 학교, 일터, 놀이터, 까페, 피트니스장에 이르기까지 코로나 19 이후 집 밖으로 쪼개어 확장되어 가던 사회적 기능과 요구들이 집으로 들어오고 있다. 공적공간으로 분화되어가던 기능이 집으로 집중되고 축적됨과 동시에 인간활동반경은 집과 인간 본래의 서식지이던 자연으로 양분되고 확장의 방향을 향해가던 글로벌 자본주의 사회에 역행하는 방향으로 축소된 삶도 가능함을 경험하게 해주었다. 서식지가 축소된 자연의 반격이 시작된 시대 인간에게 필요한 적정의, 최소한의 반경에 대한 인식으로써 집을 다시 사유하고자 한다. 자연의 관계망안에서 집의 본질은 어디를 향해야 하는가 질문하고자 한다. 경계, 흐름, 관계, 멈춤, 순환 등 집의 무게중심이 향한 곳에서 삶의 방향이 잡히기 때문이다. 민성홍 작가에게 집은 가변적이고 유동적인 것이라면 조재영의 작품에서 집은 축적과 반복으로 단단해지는 것이다. 이창훈에게 집은 고요함 속에 드러나는 기억과 이야기라면 황문정에게 집은 계속 진동할 수 있는 활기와 움직임이다. EUS+ 건축사무소는 사회와 연결되는 동시에 구분되고자 하는 경계로서 집의 문을 드나드는 행위로 관객들을 초대하고 박관택 작가는 ‘집’이라는 단어가 들어간 대중가요들을 모은 사운드 드로잉으로 집이라는 공통된 개념이 존재하는가를 묻는다. 디지털 벽돌로 짓는 사적공간이 아닌 물리적 존재로서 인간에게 마찰이 가능한 장소로서의 집을 다시 생각한다. 이때 집은 공간체계를 재구성하는 것 이상으로 땅을 딛고 점유하고 나누며 살아가는 인간조건에 관한 것이다. 인간의 본질은 무엇이고 자연의 일부로서 인간 삶은 어떤 형태와 방향으로 나아가야 하는가에 대한 관점의 전환으로 집의 개념을 재성찰하는 현대미술작가들의 작품들을 건축가와 함께 미술관 공간에 또 하나의 집을 짓듯이 담아보고자 한다.

북큐레이션ㅣ커넥티드 북스토어, 키즈캔
후원ㅣ한국문화예술위원회
기획ㅣ김은영, 김소영
교육 및 홍보ㅣ허은, 신은률
촬영 및 디자인ㅣ한아름, 박도현
진행ㅣ고다현, 이회남
글ㅣ김은영
도록 디자인ㅣ김일래
사진ㅣ박현욱

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Rethinking today’s home and tomorrow’s life in the pandemic age
Participating artistsㅣSunghong Min, Kwantaeck Park, Changhoon Lee, Jaiyoung Cho, Moonjung Hwang, EUS+ Architects

A home is the pivot point of everything. Since the outbreak of COVID-19, a wide array of social functions and demands have converged on the home including the functions of places such as schools, workplaces, playgrounds, cafes, and fitness centers. While even public functions are also brought to a home and the radius of human activities is bisected into the house and nature, the initial habitat of humans, the COVID-19 pandemic serves as an opportunity for human beings to experience simplified lives in a way that opposes global capitalistic society which has pursued expansion in every arena. In an age when nature begins making a counterattack, this exhibition is intended to examine the home as an optimal, minimum sphere for humans. It is also meant to question the nature of a home and its function in a network with nature. The direction of one’s life can be set in association with aspects such as boundary, flow, relationship, pause, and cycle. This exhibition is designed to touch on abstract and material conditions pertaining to a home as a framework-like human condition and as a human habitat that would be a space with friction when everything moves to online space. Sunghong Min’s wheeled structures are movable. With camouflage veil-like sheet draped over thin wooden poles, these structures create a tent-like space in which one can avoid light and the eyes of others. If a home is seen as an extension of our skin, this work works as a roof to cover us for a while. The artist seeks an unfixed, variable and fluid value through the motif of a roof that cannot maintain its weight without walls and doors while carrying out its function for protection and distinction. Contrary to this, in Jaiyoung Cho’s work, a home becomes solid through accumulation and repetition. As if building a wall by laying bricks on the ground one by one, her step-like work can be experienced only when strides are amassed slowly. It is like the fact that 24 hours of a day can be spent when we use every hour. Although everyday routines and rhythms bring about boredom, a home, in which an accumulation of time is allowed, stands for emotional stability. Changhoon Lee looks around empty houses in the redevelopment districts where any further accumulation of the everyday is suspended. The stream of time seems to be halted in an empty home, but memories of inhabitants, their relationships with other members, and their stories are left in the air. As if representing different tactile sensations and emotions he felt in each home with materials, Lee touches on what we have to see and hear in the space of an empty box-like house with a moisture collector. In his work, a home is not made up of walls, floors, and furniture but of invisible factors. Whereas in Changhoon Lee’s work a home is either a narrative or memory unveiled in quietude, in Moonjung Hwang’s work a home is both vitality and vibrating movement. In The Contacted for Uncontact, an installation representing daily irony under the pandemic circumstances, Hwang allows viewers to peep at an acting home that incessantly vibrates in a society where only an effective movement is allowed even though it is of no use. In fact, it is impossible to unite the diversity of ideas on homes into the single word 'home', just as it is impossible to contain all meanings of life in the single word 'life'. Kwantaeck Park asks if we can find a universal feeling for home in popular songs that have passed through our ears. A few lines of a popular song including the word ‘home’ make sounds as if saying something over and over again in a paper drawing that constructs the basic structure of a speaker. A home in repetitively recited common melodies forms the imagery in which a home is something longing, suffocating, connecting, or severing everyone. A home exists in a society where its members live together with its own respective meaning. Looking at a home that is both individual and collective, EUS+ Architects takes note of its boundaries. A house is like a door that links this space to that space and also distinguishes it from that space. EUS+ Architects looks back on the basic conditions of humans who inhabit in a space from an architect’s point of view through a door that is always open, a door through which our eyes pass but our bodies not, or a door that creates boundaries in many forms. A thought pertaining to a home symbolizes the category of human actions and the direction of consciousness, if chasms and lines are enough and the radius of a plane like a wall allows a needed minimum activity. This exhibition rethinks the home not as a private space built with digital bricks but as a physical thing that friction is possible. At this time a home pertains to the conditions of humans who occupy and share their own territory more than the reconstruction of a spatial system. This exhibition is meant to bring together works by contemporary artists and architects who contemplate the nature of humans and the notion of a home as a shift in perspectives takes place pertaining to what direction human life has to proceed in. Since COVID-19, a home has grown more apart from the museum. Thus, houses are built in the art museum. New ideas on homes are forged. We try to envisage tomorrow’s life through our thoughts on homes.