Oykos

“If home is where one belongs, and if to belong is fundamentally to be part of a we,
then it follows that we-ness is the very essence of home.” - Hye Young Kim

What if home is not a place at all, but a condition of being-with? And what if it is not something we find but something we do, a practice rather than a destination? To ask these questions is to shift the attention from where one lives to how one lives, from where is home to with whom are we at home. Home, in this sense, happens in the space between people, not inside four walls; it is not a building but a state of belonging.

This, too, is the practice at the heart of the exhibition: a return to the ancient Greek idea of oikos, a concept of home that extends beyond architecture into the intimate territory where identity, memory, care, and belonging are formed. Through installations, images, sounds, sculptures, and gestures, the works examine how artists negotiate belonging and estrangement, protection and exposure, solitude and community. Here artistic practice itself becomes an act of homemaking, a process of constructing temporary spaces of meaning, intimacy, resistance, and care. Home becomes something we create together, again and again.