Solo Exhibition Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, South Korea
This exhibition brings together three works by Apichatpong Weerasethakul held in major public art institutions across Korea: Durmiente & async from the Daejeon Museum of Art, Ashes from the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea and Fireworks (Archives) from the Ulsan Art Museum. Created at different times and under varying circumstances, these works nevertheless share a common thread—each explores the porous boundaries between memory and forgetting, reality and illusion, the seen and the unseen. Apichatpong’s practice resists traditional narrative structures and avoids overt messages. Instead, he invites viewers into sensory experiences shaped by ambiguity, silence, and dreamlike imagery. These works may initially feel disorienting or unresolved, but they linger in the mind—an intentional effect rooted in the artist’s belief that certain truths, buried in memory and the unconscious, cannot be adequately expressed through language alone. Rather than offering fixed interpretations, his moving images function as open fields of perception. Viewers are encouraged to walk through his worlds, listen to what resonates within silence, and respond through their own memories and sensations. Apichatpong’s art, in this way, becomes an act of remembering through dreaming, and of resisting through remembering—an invitation to feel what cannot be seen, and to glimpse what lies just beyond the visible.
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