Interior Archipelago  

Interior Architecture Graduate Show ‘25
2025

For the Interior Architecture Graduate Show 2025, I directed and edited the exhibition video. I prepared the interview questions, filmed responses with a teammate, and completed the editing process independently. While I delivered the finalized video, my teammate focused on transcribing responses for the graphic design team, which they then transformed into a poster. The dual presentation of video and poster created a layered conversation, echoing the curatorial theme of Interior Archipelago. I also contributed to the installation process, ensuring the curatorial vision extended into the physical exhibition space.



Curatorial Statement
Scattered but close, the fragments of an archipelago exist in an unresolved duality, in conversation with each other, but designed to be isolated pieces afloat on a shared sea. Assimilating nature, Interior Archipelago is a layered metaphor of hope for our community, to be unavoidably individualized and divided, and simultaneously capable of finding balance and harmony through the in-between space. The latter is the public space where dialogue happens, where confrontation takes place, where violence might arise, still peace should prevail in the acknowledgment that the body of water that lets the island survive is a shared place, with no borders and no ownership, other than the one we create. By embracing its conversational nature over the soliloquy of its existence, the archipelago becomes a public interior space, where looking inward does not mean neglecting what is outside but simply creating the condition to focus on each other and reflect on our brokenness and coexistence as tools for empathy.






        Questions


  • When did you feel most isolated during these past two years, and what helped you through?
  • What did you discover about yourself during this experience, and how did it shape who you are today?
  • Who or what made you feel seen during this program? 
  • If you could speak to your first-year self now, what would you say?
  • What are you leaving behind, and what chapter are you stepping into?
  •  In a sea of voices, what’s the one truth you want to say out loud before you leave?
  • Who or what has supported you quietly, without being noticed? 
  • What systems or structures shaped your work the most, whether you embraced them or challenged them?






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