waterdreamhouse
물꿈집
2025. 3. 28 - 4.17
《waterdreamhouse》
全時空間 ALLTIMESPACE
Oh Sera x Cha Ji Ryang
The exhibition Waterdreamhouse begins with the belief that looking into the layered phenomena occurring within the concept of water is, in itself, an act of dreaming.
The two artists explore this notion through their respective methods and forms, weaving their individual imaginations into a single flow. The images, once formed, accumulate and overlap, continuing as a series of dream-like attempts. This shared exploration of existing water and dreams reaches another “me” — the audience — and dwells as a single house.
Oh Sera discovers that the time she lives in is non-linear.
Within that flow, she excavates clues, submerges images, then retrieves them. Through the process of reacting to light, drying, and settling, she observes the layered images once again and performs experiments to reconnect with what lies within. In this exhibition, the artist expands beyond her usual film and chemical experiments and collaborates with db Print Studio to attempt new methods of image-making.
Her series Waterdreamhouse 2024, set against a lake that holds the submerged history of a village, explores the themes of water, dreams, and home. Using the technique of lithography, she delicately captures the layers of water. Through this process, she begins to notice specks floating on the surface of her film—traces that seem to have flowed out from homes submerged underwater, like residual afterimages left by vanished spaces and time.
In Afterimage 2025, a print made from two corroded zinc plates, the artist overlaps two distinct landscapes onto a single sheet of paper, creating an effect akin to the lingering image that appears when one opens their eyes after closing them.
Cha Jiryang records moments when the individual exists fully while dwelling in diverse times and spaces.
He captures these experiences through video and sound, unfolding deeply personal, dream-like landscapes retrieved from inner depths. For this exhibition, he attempts to output these subtle, vibrating layers of experience as images.
Surfing 2025, a soundscape documenting moments of immersion, features waveform fragments that gradually settle into calm and then surge again, arranged on a musical staff like pieces of wave.
Hello 2016 is a work drawn from a background image used in a performance where the artist leaped into the Han River a decade ago, portraying the discoloration and evaporation of memory over time.
Certain fragments remain unresolved, sometimes surfacing unexpectedly. The artist’s continued exploration of how the individual can penetrate and dwell within an image is reconstructed in a sequence of scenes in Pieces of the Heart 2025 and ~~~~~~* 2025*. These works traverse the inside and outside of images, as part of an ongoing attempt to build a multilayered time-space.
Since 2022, the two artists have been working together, embracing each other’s perspectives through photography, video, and the performing body.
In this exhibition, they embrace their individual records through the method of printmaking, exploring the layers of time and memory within the landscape of Waterdreamhouse. It is a matter tied to what is inscribed within themselves — passing through the water’s surface into deeper dreams, retrieving afterimages, and letting go of lost memories.
So that the journey may continue — a journey of finding each one’s place of rest within the flow.
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물꿈집
2025. 3. 28 - 4.17
《waterdreamhouse》
全時空間 ALLTIMESPACE
Oh Sera x Cha Ji Ryang
The exhibition Waterdreamhouse begins with the belief that looking into the layered phenomena occurring within the concept of water is, in itself, an act of dreaming.
The two artists explore this notion through their respective methods and forms, weaving their individual imaginations into a single flow. The images, once formed, accumulate and overlap, continuing as a series of dream-like attempts. This shared exploration of existing water and dreams reaches another “me” — the audience — and dwells as a single house.
Oh Sera discovers that the time she lives in is non-linear.
Within that flow, she excavates clues, submerges images, then retrieves them. Through the process of reacting to light, drying, and settling, she observes the layered images once again and performs experiments to reconnect with what lies within. In this exhibition, the artist expands beyond her usual film and chemical experiments and collaborates with db Print Studio to attempt new methods of image-making.
Her series Waterdreamhouse 2024, set against a lake that holds the submerged history of a village, explores the themes of water, dreams, and home. Using the technique of lithography, she delicately captures the layers of water. Through this process, she begins to notice specks floating on the surface of her film—traces that seem to have flowed out from homes submerged underwater, like residual afterimages left by vanished spaces and time.
In Afterimage 2025, a print made from two corroded zinc plates, the artist overlaps two distinct landscapes onto a single sheet of paper, creating an effect akin to the lingering image that appears when one opens their eyes after closing them.
Cha Jiryang records moments when the individual exists fully while dwelling in diverse times and spaces.
He captures these experiences through video and sound, unfolding deeply personal, dream-like landscapes retrieved from inner depths. For this exhibition, he attempts to output these subtle, vibrating layers of experience as images.
Surfing 2025, a soundscape documenting moments of immersion, features waveform fragments that gradually settle into calm and then surge again, arranged on a musical staff like pieces of wave.
Hello 2016 is a work drawn from a background image used in a performance where the artist leaped into the Han River a decade ago, portraying the discoloration and evaporation of memory over time.
Certain fragments remain unresolved, sometimes surfacing unexpectedly. The artist’s continued exploration of how the individual can penetrate and dwell within an image is reconstructed in a sequence of scenes in Pieces of the Heart 2025 and ~~~~~~* 2025*. These works traverse the inside and outside of images, as part of an ongoing attempt to build a multilayered time-space.
Since 2022, the two artists have been working together, embracing each other’s perspectives through photography, video, and the performing body.
In this exhibition, they embrace their individual records through the method of printmaking, exploring the layers of time and memory within the landscape of Waterdreamhouse. It is a matter tied to what is inscribed within themselves — passing through the water’s surface into deeper dreams, retrieving afterimages, and letting go of lost memories.
So that the journey may continue — a journey of finding each one’s place of rest within the flow.
more infos