Artist  Moon Chang-Hwan

It explores the invisible structures that shape contemporary life at the intersection of environment, industry, capital, and community. Through installation, video, sound, and site-specific research, it examines how social and environmental issues become embedded in everyday landscapes. The work often begins with field research, interviews, and archival materials, with a focus on transforming them into sensory experiences. In doing so, it reveals the tensions and contradictions hidden behind convenience and development, while creating an opportunity to reconsider the lives, memories, and places shaped by these systems.

Exhibition Introduction

‘Where We Are: Flowing, Falling’ is an exhibition that follows the traces of labor that remain in people’s bodies and memories even after industrial spaces have stopped. Just as water leaves marks on a surface after flowing or falling, the labor repeated in a place and the time shared there do not disappear, but remain in another form.

This exhibition is based on memories left in former industrial spaces in Korea and Taiwan. Through the stories and gestures of workers who once worked in factories, the artist looks at labor not simply as work, but as something connected to responsibility in life, experiences of movement, and the time lived together with others.

Through images of water flowing or falling, ash left after burning, and fading memories, the video and installation reveal the sensations of the body and traces of memory that remain even after a place has disappeared. The exhibition seeks to explore what we leave behind and where those traces remain.