Shorelines : Craft in Flux

The shoreline is never still. With every tide, it shifts. Sometimes subtly, sometimes with force, remaking its own edges. This restless meeting point between land and sea is also where stories, traditions, and exchanges happen.

In Shorelines, craft becomes a metaphor for this shifting boundary: the space where what has been taught and passed down encounters what is reimagined. Like the coastline that erodes, deposits, and transforms, craft too is in flux. Its methods, materials, and meanings are reshaped by each new hand that takes them up.

Shorelines reflect the resonance of two places where coastlines define life. This exhibition brings together artists from South Korea and Singapore to mark 50 years of diplomatic friendship between the two nations. Their coasts shape both Korea as a peninsula surrounded by tides and Singapore as an island bound by sea.

Here, the shoreline is not a limit but a living threshold: a place where past and present, land and water, tradition and innovation, Korea and Singapore, continually meet.

Text by Dana Goh

in collaboration with Villa Oasis Collective and Global Tufting Association (Korea x Singapore Exchange)

Featured Singaporean Artists: Tang Bi Feng | Shayne Phua Shi Ying | Karrisan Chua | Dana Goh | Aarti Pillai

November 20 - 25, 2025

Corner Gallery, Bukchon-ro, Seoul