collaboration
This is a special archive collaboration exhibition designed to convert the online records of individuals, which were fragmentedly scattered across digital spaces, into the heavy materiality of analog, allowing them to thoroughly share and empathize with each other's lives in the physical space of offline.
We went through a heartwarming process of personally requesting and collecting precious pieces of daily life that people had fleetingly left online, then printing each one out as a physical photograph. Gratefully, many willingly joined in sharing and empathizing with their own intimate records. By printing digital data that had only remained on cold screens into physical forms that touch the fingertips, and weaving them closely together as if scrapping them on a wall, we aimed to fully convey the unique weight and warm tenderness of each record throughout the entire space.
Moving away from the conventional exhibition plot of simply hanging works neatly in frames, we wanted the entire space to breathe like a single giant diary. By utilizing a scrapbooking technique where the printed daily records of countless people are pasted and overlapped on the walls and furniture, we wanted to give visitors a deep sense of immersion, as if they had stepped into someone else's secret drawer of records. Rather than relying on formal splendor, by using the actual time-worn records of real people as the core material of the space, we have completed a dense archive space that awakens a sense of warm solidarity in the heart of a cold city center.
We carefully considered the flow of sight and breath so that natural emotional exchange could occur within the space, as people read others' daily lives and quietly project their own year in the scenery of the photos. In line with the warm timing of calmly looking back on the year, we wanted to extract the texts and images that were trapped within the invisible screen into a physical space and share a sensory analog experience. In particular, the deskterior, styled as if having brought over the world of a record keeper, gifted meaningful time for visitors to quietly gaze upon someone's organized desk and think deeply about their own recording space and daily attitude.
