My garden, a new world found lost in space
As we suffer under the restrictions of COVID-19, we long for the freedom of movement and connections with others that we once had. The deprivation of our freedom of movement causes us to treasure time and space to be shared with others and our relationships all the more. Perhaps, ironically, the coronavirus provided an opportunity for us to return to our ‘true nature’ and for each one of us to define oneself. The existential communication that we are engaged in today is a recovery process to rediscover our true selves. Through communication, pursued by our free will, we rebuild the world we came to know anew after losing it for some time and heal ourselves.
Together with the Gyeonggi Culture Foundation, the Korea Ceramic Foundation arranged the contemporary ceramics exhibition miracle garden: Space of Imagination at the Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art (GMoMA). The exhibition provides the audience a virtual space of imagination where freedom can be enjoyed as much as can be at any exhibit. This space of unlimited freedom and beauty invites you to be free from the restrictions of physical space and enter into a picture where you can enjoy mountains and rivers there and create your own world, your garden, freely beyond dimension. By experiencing the art of contemporary ceramics and ‘immersion into freedom’ and ‘connection with others,’ the two keywords of this exhibition, the audience imagines and discovers new possibilities, communes between their own experience and conception that created the artwork, and gains new strength for life.