Text to begin A Summer Place:

The day repeats itself and the moment of recalling could only be in the present.

Our (Mo Kim, Rho Eunjoo, Enna Bae, Joungmin Yi, mixrice and Daejin Choi) initial meeting for A Summer Place happened in March 2017. We came up with thousands of words - summer resort, exile, romance, camping, etc., imagining the exhibition taking place during the vacation season in an artist residency, which also had to be done collectively in site. In our consecutive meetings we realized that situations at the moment - impeachment, refrigerator, heat, monsoon, etc., are not only intervening but interrupting our thoughts for the exhibition.

Our exhibition inevitably will be anchored in here/now. Even though here/now would not meet our expectation, we had to question ourselves the condition that forms the present. Perhaps, contemporaneity could be attained in the moment when delayed time reveals the valid possibility of its own existence.

A Summer Place is the very day when the past of mine meets the future of ours. For 10 days starting from the end of July, we will draw, make, write and move together, invading your place and withdrawing my place in the exhibition space at Nanji. Often the words ‘together’ is overly romanticized since we rarely achieve togetherness. This summer, six artists will strive to become temporal ‘we’ in the two circular exhibition spaces.

A Summer Place suggests another form of questioning: what am I seeing here/now?


/ Rho Eunjoo and Enna Bae


* A Summer Place is an on-going exhibition taking place in site. During the 10-day exhibition period from July 27th to August 6th, production process of the exhibition is open to public from July 27th to August 3rd.