Everyone has a scar on their heart. Each scar that we live with has a different depth, be it deep or shallow. What wears down our emotions? No ointment can heal our wounds. We are able to accept such injuries and make our intolerant emotions flexible only when we face our hardships without trying to eschew them. We can be free within our wounds when we stop regarding being wounded as something habitual. Face to Face – And then there were none cites the large body of emotions we experience in our relationships with others. This exhibition raises questions concerning why we enter into a number of relationships and how we exist within them. It starts from a scene in which viewers face one another in silence, looking into their inner worlds through silent actions. The Dinner by Eunsol Cho is an interpretation of the relationships among people who live wearing a multitude of masks. Cho represents the table as a forum for meetings and conversations and relationships as an abridged edition of society. She reflects heartless relationships in a rapidly shifting society, focusing on the matter of human relationships. The audience is able to communicate through silent conversations and actions as they sit before the table in silence. The moment of “thinking” about life may come at the end of the process of examining and comprehending any absence of communication there.
We have to deliberate on who (or what) enters into a relationship with us amidst the countless ones that come to an end due to “mistakenness”, not ‘difference”. You are, after all, another “I” who reflects your unconsciousness, and any “relationship” is the result of your or my accumulated experiences. Is the key to mutual relations to first face yourself and then face each other?
(Written by_Yull Choi)