CR Collective presents a solo exhibition 《Driftroot》 by artist Sujin Moon, selected for the 2025 CR Open Call for Emerging Aritsts, until November 15.

Sujin Moon has documented rhythms where extinction and regeneration intersect through the labor of tending a garden and bodily experiences, articulating a language of life’s cyclical nature. The repetitive experience of plowing fields, planting seeds, and harvesting yields becomes a foundation that transcends personal narrative to explore the circulation of ecosystems and the ways humans are positioned within them.

This exhibition, 《Driftroot》, unfolds ecological scenes in which humans and nature, death and life mediate one another within the material structure where paper, seeds, and the lives of plants intertwine.

In Moon Sujin’s work, paper is not merely a recording medium but a phase in the circulation of life where death and regeneration, settlement and movement intersect, and an apparatus that reveals relational difference. Single Sheets presents papers made from hay gathered at locations where Moon stayed from 2021 to 2025, offered as margins that hold specific times and places while awaiting new stories.

The Cast begins with the act of throwing seed-embedded paper onto the exhibition wall, where over time the seeds on the paper sprout. This work demonstrates that life does not exist as an isolated entity but is formed through entanglement with water, light, surfaces, and environment.

The Standing captures the process in which upright paper collapses under rain and dew, and new plants emerge from that very spot. Paper stands at the boundary between death and life, simultaneously revealing the tensions of vertical and horizontal, ascent and descent. Moon Sujin’s work thus demonstrates that death and life do not simply oppose one another but appear as mutual transformations within a single relational field.

In the Garden extends this ecological thinking into digital space. This new interactive touchscreen work, created through 3D scanning of the backyard garden in Maastricht, invites viewers into a virtual garden where they grope across the screen while hearing tactile sounds and recited poetry.

Indistinct sounds murmur, and as one approaches certain points, voices resonate more clearly, transforming the act of tending a garden into a process of tactile understanding acquired through bodily senses.

Finally, the new work Driftroot is a performance video documenting a scene in which paragliding performers (actual twin sisters) scatter handmade paper from the sky. The paper flutters in the air, touches the ground and disappears, and days later seeds sprout from that spot.

The scattering of thrown paper and the sprouting of seeds is not absorption into nature but becomes the act of breathing together within the rhythm of the ecosystem. The flight of paragliding reveals this field of relational life, summoning a momentary catharsis in which humans and nature reflect one another.

As the title suggests, the exhibition demonstrates the dynamism of existence that simultaneously takes root and scatters. Moon asks: where do we take root while drifting, and in what ways does life that springs from the place of death illuminate our lives? This exhibition, 《Driftroot》, unfolds these questions as a visual and material landscape, reminding us that all, like paper, are part of the ecosystem, ceaselessly disappearing and being reborn.

“Driftroot”
2025.10.21 - 2025.11.15
Tue-Sat 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm
CR Collective
120 Seongmisan-ro, Mapo-gu, Seoul, Korea