성수 2023년 8월 (Seong-su August 2023) pop up exhibition at Emotions of Home

Bringing Seong-Su to Portland:

10/20 - 10/22

opening night 10/20 6-8pm

"성수 2023년 8월 (Seong-su August 2023)" is a textile piece documenting various textures found on the streets of Seong-Su, a popular destination and temporary home during Ilgi Studio's recent trip to Seoul. Walls that show time, human touch, layers, and deterioration from extreme weather, felt new and exciting as an outsider. Knowing these textures and moments in time are fleeting and will change on a daily basis, they are preserved as a time capsule and brought to life on a new surface, existing now in the present in a new unfamiliar environment.

With an everlasting curiosity and desire to understand dual identity, family history, and overall Korean culture, short excursions from the United States to South Korea are made with the hopes of overcoming distances both physically and culturally. Understanding this futile undertaking of wanting to know both worlds,…