At the time of the coronavirus, we were forced to stay locked in our rooms and face isolation and solitude. When confined to a room, we can only imagine what is behind the walls, ceilings, and floors. The unknown behind the walls becomes a source of discomfort and anxious imagination. In the video, The Room, this fear of restricted space is translated into the movement, overlapping, and distorting of rooms. The structure of the rooms, as well as the lives of their inhabitants, mutate and disintegrate due to disrupted social structures to internal paranoia. Restless thoughts shatter the space again and again... But these rooms are not just in our heads – the spaces we inhabit online behave the same way. With the abundance of information and the rapid changes in the digital environment, the architecture of the virtual world is crumbling, and virtual spaces actively confuse and erode their inhabitants from within.

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Performer: Um HyoBin