A House for Hermes 07 (Pt 1 & 3) - Curated by JooYoung Sohn, Laurens Tan, BoYoung Jung & YeonHwa Yeom

RESEARCH BACKGROUND: 'A House for Hermes 07 (Part 1 and 3)' was an installation by Charles Anderson at the curated group exhibition 'Always On My Mind' held at the Museum of Art, Seoul National University. RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION: This work is part of an ongoing project by Anderson which muses upon what constitutes 'house', 'home' and 'place' in the contemporary world of ceaseless change, displacement and exile. At the Museum of Art this work consists of: (1) sixty images of abandoned mattresses photographed in cities around the world. Together these images configure a world of abandonment and of home temporarily shaped in the ruins, waste and non-places of the urban environment; (2) Participatory drawings (tables, chairs, pencils and paper are provided for visitors to draw from memory a floor plan of a house significant in their lives. These drawings form the basis for the continuing House for Hermes Project: an evolving morphology of global dwelling formed in an ongoing conversation performed at a local level. RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE: The exhibition was part of the Australia - Korea Art Project that celebrates 50 years of diplomatic relations between Australia and Korea. The project investigates the multiple notions of home in the context of todayʼs deterritorialization of culture and identity through the work of two groups of artists, each coming from the other side of the globe.