Threshold
Rather than seeing home as a fixed architectural form, the work considers it as something gradually formed through occupation. Architectural boundaries, personal belongings, everyday actions, sensations, memories, and desires accumulate and interact within a space, allowing a place to become someone’s home over time—even under temporary and unstable conditions.
Threshold focuses on the contrast between the outermost architectural boundary and the individual lives that unfold behind it. An anonymous, closed door is only a very thin physical boundary, yet it marks a point where the character of a space shifts dramatically from an anonymous exterior to a personal and intimate interior.
The installation is structured so that the audience experiences this contrast gradually. Behind the image of an anonymous door, moving images document the everyday lives of five temporary residents in their own rooms, partially revealed through reflections in a mirror. To see the interior, viewers must shift their position and move around the work. In this process, their restricted view and movement become part of the work itself.
Through this sequence, the work suggests that even within the temporary and unstable conditions of the city, it is ultimately through the act and desire to make a place one’s own that a sense of home takes shape.
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Moving image: Single-channel video, 15 min loop
Image transfer on plywood, steel frame, mirror, monitor
15min loop
Variable dimensions
2026
(49, 53)