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[Bunpei Kado] Participation in the international group exhibition "Waterways, Wandering Voyagers" at Jecheon, Korea

2025/06/15

ーBunpei Kado’s Space House Video Makes Its Korean Debutー

From June 9 (Mon) to July 23 (Wed), 2025, Bunpei Kado is participating in the international group exhibition Waterways, Wandering Voyagers, currently on view at Yeobyeoncho Salon in Jecheon, South Korea. The exhibition is organized by Urban Art Lab, with support from the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Korea Arts Management Service, and the City of Jecheon.The exhibition is a notable international show featuring promising artists from both Korea and abroad, including Vincent Morisset (Canada) and Dongwook Lee (Korea), among others.

Focusing on the historical context of Jecheon, the exhibition explores themes of "migration and borders," "place and identity," and "memory." It aims to reinterpret the meaning of “journey” by weaving together past and present, reality and imagination.

In this context, Kado presents Space House Video—a pivotal work from his long-running Space House series—for the first time in Korea. Inspired by his own rural upbringing and the stark contrast with vertically stacked urban living environments, the Space House series fundamentally reexamines the nature of what it means “to live.”

The series envisions a fictional scenario in which individual houses continue to expand—first on flat land, then across cliffs, into the sky, and finally into outer space. In Space House Video, this speculative architecture becomes inhabited: the video features interviews with “residents” of these imaginary dwellings. These residents resemble ordinary people who have relocated from cities to new environments—a reality echoed in the post-pandemic trend of urban-to-rural migration. The work quietly but powerfully captures the adaptability and resilience of human beings, who continue to reshape their lives and perceptions in unfamiliar living conditions.

■ Exhibition information
Waterways, Wandering Voyagers
Period: June 9 (Mon) - July 23 (Wed), 2025
Venue: Yeobyeoncho Salon（14-1, Uibyeong-daero 12-gil, Jecheon-si, Chungcheongbuk-do, Korea）
Organized by Urban Art lab (Seoul)
Supported by the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Korea Arts Management Service, the City of Jecheon
Cooperation: Jecheon Culture Foundation
Curation: Seungah Lee (Chief), Won Sim (Associate), Yiseul Park (Assistant), Nayoon Kim (Coordinator)
Participating Artists: Kong Hyun-Jin, Kira Kim, Park Kyung Jin, Mira Park, Sungyeon Park, Sookhyeon An, Jaewook Yang, Oh Jeisung, Lee Dongwook, Lee Young Baek, Buhm Hong, HUANG HAOBIN, Vincent Morisset, Bunpei Kado

Installation view:

《Space House #01》2013 / wood, iron