“BETTER NOT TO WRITE UNDER THE SPIRE” Installation view at Former Embassy Residence ©Euirock LeeBahc Jimu’s solo exhibition, BETTER NOT TO WRITE UNDER THE SPIRE, will held from September 3 to 30 at the Former Embassy Residence. The exhibition space uses the structure of an empty house on its own. The works on display are reconstructions of scenes and events that the artist encountered while wandering around the exhibition space and Hannam-dong.
The exhibition is organized across some rooms and restrooms on the first and second floors of the space, as well as on an outdoor terrace on the second floor. After crossing the small garden in front of the space, the works are displayed in the living room and some rooms on the first floor. A series of ‘Knife Drawing’ and < ONE CENTURY > (2023), a flat work dominated by white color, hang on the white walls of the house and white dresser, feeling like part of the space. On the second floor, installations that utilize the spaces more actively stand out. < I’ve been touching the loose tooth for a decade > (2023) and < Copper Coins > (2023) are installed in the toilet and the gaps near the toilet. On the outdoor terrace, < Outlaw > (2023), with acrylic writing and drawings on flowerpot, evokes the familiarity and strangeness of the space at once.
