Installations
Curated by Seongeun Lee
Shown at Chamber Gallery in Seoul February 26 to March 15, 2026
Shown at Chamber Gallery in Seoul February 26 to March 15, 2026
The exhibition is themed around a central metaphor of the mayfly. Harusari, the Korean word for mayfly which also translates literally to “one day living thing” stems from the artist’s childhood memories of growing up in a waterfront village in China. He recalls collecting mayfly larvae from a stream and hiding them in a jar inside of a sock drawer. They one day transformed into adults and to his surprise flew away as he opened the drawer. He sees the mayfly as a dialectical synthesis of both the past and present. The life of a mayfly; who spends virtually all of its life underwater only to emerge briefly as a “one day living thing;” resonates with the artist’s own experience moving to the UK at the age of seven. He refuses to identify himself as being either British or Chinese. Instead, he finds comfort at the intersection of where these discordant experiences collide and mingle. This is where his life, which has had to constantly layer new narratives over the sediment of childhood memories, overlaps with the nature of the mayfly.