여상희
Yeo Sanghee

Yeo Sanghee is an installation artist interested in subjects that are gradually disappearing from society, developing her work based on fieldwork and archives. She primarily records, collects, exhibits, and “rescues” traces of space and time found in houses, the objects and furniture within them, and the personal daily lives that were once cherished but are now forgotten. She dissolves discarded newspapers in water, disintegrates them, and then presses them into paper brick monuments. She also works on recreating “disappearing houses” based on her long-term archiving and collections from villages she visits that are disappearing due to redevelopment. Through this, the artist examines a disappearing era and the individuals associated with it, and reflects on places filled with the heartbreaking history of Korea’s modern era. She exposes social issues by collecting testimonies of buried events and exhibiting abandoned items. In this exhibition, Yeo Sanghee reveals the eras and places where architecture and crafts intertwine, based on materials found at redevelopment sites of once-splendid modern-era houses from the 1960s to 1980s and collected from old houses being demolished in areas flooded by heavy rain. The artist’s intimate micro-historical approach, in turn, makes us reflect on the cityscape of today. The fragments of abandoned and forgotten houses, like other materials, remind us of the meaning of craft elements that reflect our times and environment.