November 28 – December 5, 2015

1, Dorim-ro 128ga-gil, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul

It only took a moment to take down the old signboards and install the new ones. They were years old, but they did not look hateful or unbearable, at least to me. It is said that some faces are now refurbished, but the place is consistently powerful no matter how the appearance of the faces is changed. This process was like an experience of seeing sedimentary rocks, the morning weather of a man still living in the outline of the worms, and a similar feeling to when I heard “I thought I look like the picture of you for some reason.”.

Without any time to think carefully of how the title ‘Sediment Box’ for an exhibition originated from the sight of the new signboards going up and the old ones being taken down in my neighborhood, I rushed to think of why the works from different times are tied together. When the signboards were changed I may have expected something to be dramatically different. But I got to know for sure that such signboards cannot do anything about the accumulated time. The time of the place, the time of the human… Of course, it is difficult to read the time from everything that is visible. While people reminisce about the traces of the time, it is more difficult to deal with the busy and painful minds that are not satisfied with the time being seen. Sometimes, when I visit the place where traces are gathered, they are stuffed with a band around them. I would like to leave a few things and pass on the story. I wonder if these things we see are merely scenery. -Artist Note