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"Semin Hong’s works Home Riddles and Yesterday the stars woke me up shift the focus from communal resonance to personal displacement and mirrors the nomadic search for stability in a transient world. Engaging with the gallery’s window, it frames a glimpse into an ever-changing landscape that feels both familiar and elusive, composed of varied fragments. The tapestry recalls a puzzle pieced together from disparate elements to evoke a sense of discovery and connection, inviting viewers to confront a longing for home and the melancholic beauty of impermanence."
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‘How long have we known home?’
Home is many things to many people. Drawing from the essence of traditional East Asian gardens, YUÁN accommodates a contemplative space where art, identity, and nature converge.
YUÁN brings together both local artists who are deeply rooted in their surroundings and immigrant artists whose experiences shape a different relationship to 'Home.'
This dialogue between 'at home' and 'away from home' enriches the discourse on belonging, identity, and connection. The diverse works share a collective curiosity about our origins and evolving sense of self, presenting varied perspectives on what it means to find 'Home.’
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RECONCILED HOME,
2024
In “Reconciled Home”, Semin delves into the multitudes of the meaning of home that one can hold. A home where people are usually reminded of nurturing, warm, stable shelter, cannot always be defined in a one-dimensional manner.
Instead, it often evokes ambivalent feelings intertwined with tangled memories, where the clear distinction between good and bad has been lost. The artist incorporates profoundly personal images, such as photographs of rented apartments in North Carolina from when she first moved in with minimal furniture and everything had a temporary appearance, or her last memory of her grandpa before he passed away from cancer. She then combines these images using various techniques, including weaving and collage, with abstract images she has gathered from within and around her home throughout her life.
Through this series of works, she aims to unite different perceptions of her home from different times and hopes to reconcile with past traumas linked to the place.
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PAST EXHIBITIONS
(...) FORGOT TO REMEMBER TO FORGET(...), 2022
<Spatial Nostalgia, "Homeness"> examines temporal and architectural aspects of "home" through various media, focusing on the quality of the first house and its memory.
The house is more than just a once-inhabited dwelling; but rather a repository of memory that works as an instrument of generalised nostalgia. Although we often begin obtaining attachment to our home with concrete and specific images, the house itself becomes a public archive of unverified, irretrievable, oneiric sentiments.
The project also deals with how the process of migration, re-inhabiting between different homes takes place and impresses on our body.