STORIES WE KEEP IN HER ROOM

 

Group Exhibition (curated by Mona Kim)

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Isabel Carmona 

Nathalie Marti 

Yun Jung Rhee 

Hyemin Lee 

Zara Xena

 

 

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Exhibition Dates

Mar 5, 2026 - May 6, 2026 

 

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Opening Reception 

March 5th 2026,

Presented in celebration of International Women’s Day

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Exhibition Overview

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Stories We Keep in Her Room is a group exhibition presented in celebration of International Women’s Day.

The exhibition examines memory as something inherited and carried rather than spoken or declared. It considers how women transmit emotional knowledge across time through gesture, habit, and embodied experience.

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The room is approached not as a physical enclosure, but as an interior landscape shaped by memory and transmission. Within this space, emotion is held rather than narrated. What persists is not spectacle, but accumulation. Touch, repetition, and silence become the primary modes through which meaning is formed.

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Each work functions as a vessel for what has been preserved consciously or unconsciously. Gestures once overlooked emerge as material language. Through diverse approaches and mediums, the artists engage memory as tactile and embodied, tracing how recollection is formed through repeated actions, textures, and traces that remain within the body.

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Stories We Keep in Her Room extends beyond a single generation. It is built from tenderness, restraint, endurance, and care, alongside moments of rupture and incompletion. These are not resolved narratives, but living ones, held in suspension. The exhibition embraces this incompleteness, allowing memory to remain open, responsive, and continuously shaped by time.

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Ultimately, the exhibition proposes an act of return. A return to what has been stored away, softened by time yet never erased. Within the space of the room, emotion becomes material presence, and memory is granted the possibility of speaking again not as confession, but as continuity.