"A house is not a machine to live in. It is the shell of man, his extension, his release, his spiritual emanation."
– Eileen Gray.

This exhibition titled 'A House yet Unknown' commenced with the personal sigh of “where and with whom shall I live” and it presents views on the desire and nervousness regarding the concept of normative ‘house’ in the current Korean society. Additionally, the meaning of ‘house’ as a base of individual life is expanded, to be perceived as the site of life to place our feet on the ground of reality. Furthermore, in the midst of nervous symptoms regarding current housing problems, the quest is launched for a new place “yet unknown.”

In the context of this exhibition, the ‘house’ is perceived as the place in which is revealed the ‘crisis’ our lives are facing nowadays. The house as special territory does not signify a territorial docking but becomes a critical reality which reflects the instable condition of life related to ‘residing’. Through such process of pondering, the attempt is made to imagine a ‘house’ which is available and necessary to many people. The five artists participating in this exhibition, Jungsuck Kang, Young-gle Kim, Yongju Kwon, Eunu Lee and Joungmin Yi, all share the point of issue which the exhibition suggests and accordingly, they would portray the flexibility of contemporary art in their respective manners. The works including 4 newly created works have integrated materials of daily life to depict various positions of life which collide with reality.

Eventually, the ‘house’ in this exhibition is the place where divided desires of the Korean society collide with each other. By reflecting social conflict about housing problems and its contradictions on the house, the discussion would be extended on ‘houses’ which have not yet become a place. Imagining what would be the room we need and revealing the invisible with an acute sensitiveness, would be the ‘position’ that art in the current era should take. I sincerely hope that all these considerations would be a certain trigger to start ample stories about “a house yet unknown”, to recover our lives.
- Eunbi, Jo (Chief Curator, Art Space Pool) 

Artists: Jungsuck Kang, Yongju Kwon, Young-gle Kim, Eunu Lee, Joungmin Yi

*image (left)
construction example1, 2012 
wood, tile, moding, etc. variable size
© Eunu Lee

Courtesy of Art Space Pool