Chapter No. 1

The Room of a Dice
ver. 2022

 

We are pleased to announce the first public opening and peaceful beginnings of LOOM.

Featuring an oversized version of the image that appears as the first work of Na Kim’s SET publication, our first wall painting revisits Kim’s The Room of a Dice installation from ten years prior, which also featured a large green circle.

This installation celebrated the experiences that occur due to the logic of chance - a concept at the heart of LOOM.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

The Room of a Dice, 2012

The Room of a Dice took place in 2012 in Hotel April, Seoul, in collaboration with Gallery Factory. The room was conceived as a single dice, featuring large mounted dots numbering from 1 to 6 on each surface. Additionally, the floor of the gallery held a table, stools, and carpets. each created in collaboration with Lee Mi-kyung.

In a hexahedral room, visitors look at work in a space while simultaneously becoming objects in that space. This total object, in which visitors play roles for a while, is not something for others — it’s a private object in a very private space. The individual can take part in the work through the act of reading the space as an experience , and not just as a physical object. All of these actions are the result of choice. The only set rule is this space is the hexahedral room itself, and what you yourself who exists in it determines, alongside the numbers in the space that you see. What number will you choose? Or what number chooses you? What you are given is the six possibilities of a dice. You don't even have to roll the dice, since you are in the dice. The rules and possibilities are already set, and the result depends on where you look at and whether you believe it to be your decision. This would be one way to take off the weight of life. 

From the artist note for The Room of a Dice, 2012

 
 
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