Installation view of 《I’m here, the room next door》. © PS CENTER
PS CENTER is presenting the group exhibition 《I'm here, the room next door》 through August 1.
We all move between two rooms. One is the room in which we
breathe and live in the present; the other is the room next door, where time
quietly accumulates.
Most of us keep its door closed, dismissing the slowed footsteps
beyond it or the unfamiliar face reflected in the mirror as someone else's
concern. Yet that room is not empty. We are already there.
Inspired by the film The Room Next Door
(2024), 《I'm here, the
room next door》 invites us to pause before this closed
door. The words "I'm here" are not a distress signal from someone
isolated. Rather, they are a quiet declaration: a resolve to confront one's own
time until the very end, and to preserve the beauty of life even in the face of
death.
Installation view of 《I’m here, the room next door》. © PS CENTER
Within the sequence of intimate rooms that make up PS CENTER,
visitors cross one threshold after another, encountering the temporal
narratives woven by the three participating artists.
Time leaves its traces on the body, in space, and in the ways we
love—marks that do not simply disappear. The moment we become aware of the room
next door, the room we currently inhabit paradoxically comes into sharper
focus. The journey toward meeting our future selves becomes, in fact, a way of
living more deeply in the present.
If, on your way out of the exhibition, a small spot on the back
of your hand or the fine lines around your eyes suddenly appear different, that
alone is enough. The exhibition invites you to cross the threshold of the room
next door and, in doing so, encounter the person who is here, now.
Participating Artists: Okhyun Ahn,
Leebinsoyeon, Epäro
