《당신을 향해 뻗은 선》 전시 포스터 © 다이애나랩

This exhibition stands on a line that moves in different directions.

When someone uttered the word “hospitality,” that sensation vibrated through us and set us down upon a line far away. Faced with the question of how open we can be to another, we realized we could not remain on either side of the line we had drawn—this side or that—but had to stand upon the trembling, moving line itself. Not knowing where it was headed, at times driving ourselves almost to the point of self-destruction, we have come this far by pulling, leaping over, cutting, and redrawing countless lines.

This exhibition is about the scenes we have encountered upon that line—about the many fading doors, the patterns of lichens, the pigs, and the piles upon piles of children’s clothes and feeding bottles. On a line intricately entangled by the force of chance, we remade the scenes we had passed by. We want to speak of breaks after which one can never return. Of those moments after which it is no longer possible to live as before; of the force that makes such moments possible. Before a certain line that stretches toward you, we hope you can, at any time, climb onto it, sever it, or draw a new line. And so, may each of us continue to be drawn toward that which we cannot yet sense.

Lichens are not a single organism but symbiotic lifeforms—composites of fungi, algae, and yeasts—that live together, usually growing on the surfaces of rocks, trees, and soil like moss. They are known to exist in diverse forms and colors and to be able to survive anywhere on Earth.

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