Space recognition is a concept introduced in Kim Cho Yeob’s novel ‘Space recognition’, a lattice structure that stores the memories of a community. The people in the novel consider the space to be the aggregation of human intellect and the absolute truth. The heroine, Jenna, realises the limitations and incompleteness of the space recognition after the death of her friend, Eve, who was unable to enter the cognitive space due to her inadequate physical condition, and sets out to the outside world to prove the need for individual space of recognition(sphere).

The artists in the exhibition, Kim Jiwon, Do Yonggu, and Lee Jiwon, capture the process of building and visualising their own individual cognitive spaces. Their spheres, created outside a lattice structure of selected information such as art, crafts, and photographs, unconditionally record all beings, including themselves. By exploring, reorganising and presenting the things recorded in the sphere, the artists offer an inclusive way of looking at things.

Kim Jiwon <Space of Trace>

The work <Scar series> is made of traces left by the process of melting cold metal with a hot flame and cooling it down again. The traces created by the act repeated thousands and tens of thousands of times symbolise the pain, overcoming, and enlightenment that a human being experiences over the course of his or her life, making him or her unique and distinct from others.

Do Yonggu <Space of the Self>

I saw the diversity and difference of human beings in the stones of nature. We are all born in a pure state, evolving and cycling through various encounters and interactions with other beings. I marvel at the fact that even a rough stone, a part of nature, has existed for hundreds of millions of years in a form that is not identical to any other, and has continued to separate and unite. Both humans and non-humans are searching for regularity in irregularity and subjectivity in objectivity.

Lee Jiwon <Space of Boundary>

Everything that exists is defined and kept within conventional boundaries for convenience. In an infinitely expanding universe, beings that are constantly being created fall out of fixed boundaries or cause an imbalance of boundaries. Fluid boundaries embrace them and create balance. It flows from the interstices of black and white, natural and man-made, ground and wall, repetition and change, to the whole.