Spatial Nostalgia, "Homeness"

  • Semin Hong

Countless things have changed with pandemic, but the most noticeable shift happened in the most banal realm, home. All of my projects start from the desire to investigate the concept of home and domesticity. Migrations within and across the country naturally led me to take interest in the influence and symbolic meaning of the first house I was born in and the residual quality of its memory. People change places and houses they live in but we always carry the impression of home with them. In Spatial Nostalgia, I isolate the elements of home -whether they are architectural fragments or gestures extracted from dim memories of home- and inserts them into a new landscape. Each object included in the installation represents certain memory linked to the personal image of home.