이화여자대학교박물관

"The Breath of a House," a special exhibition coordinated by the Ewha Womans University Museum in 2004 for the Yeongam Ceramic Culture Center, was the second modern art project, following the "Art of Soil Festival" held in 2000, to focus its attention on the particular regional characteristics of Yeongam. This exhibition moved from the soil, the origin of all life, to accentuate the concept of the house, which nurtures individual lives. It featured contemporary and diverse approaches to the house by 15 prominent modern artists including Gim Jang-seob, Gim Ju-yeon, Gim Tae-gon, Bak Sang-suk, Bak Sil, Seo Do-ho, Seo Hye-yeong, An Gyu-cheol, Yang Ju-hye, U Sun-ok, Yun Seok-nam, Lee Gi-chil, Chae U-seung, Ham Yeon-ju, and Hong Seung-hye. The participating artists, in this region where domiciles represented a unity between humans and nature, presented their visions of the various functional, aesthetic, and philosophical concepts of the house both inside the Yeongam Ceramic Culture Center and outside in Gurim Village. This exhibition, which brought back the traditional within the modern, bore witness to the fact that history flows unbroken even amidst the rapidly changing contemporary culture.