Installation view of 《Out of this Sea We Cannot Fall》 © Naomi
The nonprofit exhibition space This Is Not A Church (TINC),
located in the former Myeongseong Church, is presenting Naomi’s solo exhibition
《Out of this Sea We
Cannot Fall》 through September 5.
This exhibition traces the trajectories of narratives accumulated
through East Asian folklore transmitted by the sea as they traverse different
regionalities and historical contexts. The sea is both a geographical setting
and a narrative medium and conduit through which folklore travels, transforms,
and generates new senses of place and memory.
Installation view of 《Out of this Sea We Cannot Fall》 © Naomi
In this process, structures of ascent and descent, migration and
return, disappearance and regeneration unfold as sensorial landscapes through
the language of painting. The exhibition also examines how folklore remembers history and how these
modes of remembering intersect and collide with contemporary landscapes.
Since
2020, 《Pasi(波市)_Lost Village on the Sea》 Project has
developed through research into historical events and present-day landscapes
along the coast of the Yellow Sea(West Sea). Like the migratory paths of fish
moving north before returning south, the project continues to flow beyond the
Yellow Sea toward the East China Sea.
This
exhibition marks the third chapter of that journey while remaining a
provisional waypoint in a voyage that continues to unfold.
