Installation view of 《Let's Not Ask Why We Loved Each Other》 © Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation
Gyeonggi Creation Campus, operated by the Gyeonggi Cultural
Foundation, is presenting 《Let’s Not Ask
Why We Loved Each Other》, a curated exhibition
showcasing the outcomes of its project residency, through November 29.
The exhibition presents the outcomes of Lessons from
Daebudo: Red Night, Island, a pilot project residency conducted from
May to December 2025 to research and develop the residency programme.
Through repeated visits to Daebudo, the participating artists
explored the layers of history and industrialization that shape the island,
changes brought about by development and environmental transformation, and the
traces these changes have left on people’s lives and the place itself.
Beginning with these transformations, the project approaches Daebudo not as a
singular, self-contained landscape, but as a place where different times and
memories overlap.
Installation view of 《Let's Not Ask Why We Loved Each Other》 © Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation
The exhibition moves beyond the overlapping past and present of
Daebudo, shifting its temporal perspective to a distant future that has yet to
arrive. From this vantage point, the participating artists reconstruct
present-day Daebudo as a landscape that has already passed into history.
The future imagined by the exhibition is less a sudden,
apocalyptic end than a possibility reached through the gradual accumulation of
changes in the world we inhabit today.
Visitors, in turn, encounter traces and records of present-day
Daebudo as if they were remnants of the past preserved in the distant future.
Scenes unfold in which it becomes difficult to distinguish what actually
happened from what has been reconstructed through memory and imagination, as
the present and the future, and actual and imagined spaces, overlap.
Installation view of 《Let's Not Ask Why We Loved Each Other》 © Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation
《Let’s Not Ask Why We Loved Each Other》 extends its inquiry to questions of human relationships and ways of
living. Grounded in the concept of “philia”, the exhibition examines the ways
of life that humans have developed in order to live alongside one another.
Rather than telling a story about the end of the world itself, the
exhibition invites us to look anew at the present, which has yet to disappear,
from the perspective of a distant future. By contemplating what may remain in
the years to come, it prompts us to reflect on what we live alongside today and
whose lives we inhabit.
Participating Artists: Line of Piers, Nam Hoon
Kim, Sara Kim, Sungseok AHN, Choi Daejin, Han Jin, Dongwook Hwang
