Choi Eunbin, Stand in-, 2024 ©CR Collective
CR
Collective presents a special exhibition 《O Collective》
on view through December 31. This exhibition explores modes of
coexistence that do not converge into a single theme or narrative.
Selected
through the 2025 CR Out-of-School School: Collective Approach program, artists
Noh Hyeji and Choi Eunbin, together with invited artist Bomroya, work from the
reality of today—where attention is fragmented and relationships become
increasingly disconnected—as their starting point, experimenting with ways of
staying alongside one another at their own pace rather than seeking complete
connection.
Over the
past year, the three artists visited each other’s studios, taking time to learn
about each other’s work. Conversations that began with their practices
gradually expanded to encompass the various conditions that sustain their work,
the balance with daily life, and questions of continuity, and these exchanges
naturally permeated each other’s practices.
《O
Collective》 is not an exhibition centered on finalized
works, but rather presents the accumulated research and collaborative processes
developed over a year in an exhibition format.
Bomroya, 연결통로 가이드의 하루, 2024 ©CR Collective
The “O” in the exhibition title is both circle and hole,
simultaneously a trace of absence and a symbol of infinity. This unclosed form
contains possibilities for endless continuation, and within this open
structure, the exhibition defers the completion of meaning while showing how
each world transforms the others.
Becoming-with does not simply mean a state of “being together.”
Because we cannot be completed alone, we always exist by passing through one
another, renewing ourselves through that entanglement. The exhibition does not
present definitive conclusions. By revealing the points where relationships
intersect and linger, it guides us to observe the processual time before
meaning is completed.
《O Collective》 does not turn away from
conditions of incomprehensibility but shows the process through which
relationships are generated within those gaps. The three artists do not
resonate with a single theme but instead endure sensations of divergence and
loss, reestablishing distance with others through that imperfect exchange.
Noh Hyeji, 해변 위 깃털과 뼈, 2024 ©CR Collective
Though they do not speak with one language, vibrations left by
each other’s voices overlap throughout the exhibition space. The exhibition
does not take the form of complete agreement or narrative. Instead, it
formalizes uncertainty and intermittent encounter time as density of sensation,
asking again about the meaning of “being together.”
It is an attempt to seek another mode of understanding through
failure as mediation, without denying the gaps in relationships. Perhaps true
solidarity is not sameness but remaining while recognizing each other’s
differences and incompleteness.
Participating
Artists: Roh Hyeji, Bomroya, Choi Eunbin
