《Common Matter》 is an exhibition situated as an extension of 《Opening: The Unified Field》, which opened in early 2025. Whereas the former explored a common field of consciousness at the level of awareness and relationships, the latter focuses on the moment when that field manifests within the artist's hand, action, and the material properties of the medium. Despite differing participating artists, both exhibitions share a continuity of sensation and thought, revealing the transition of artistic thinking from the “dimension of relationships” to the “dimension of matter”.

The participating artists' works expand this theme into concrete “material experiments”. Suska Bastian combines palm bark and fabric to reveal the boundary where nature and the artificial intersect, creating structures where biological traces and industrial textures coexist. Ji su Kwak weaves together disparate materials like paper, wire, and vinyl, simultaneously addressing bodily movement, restraint, and tension, visualising the process where traces of action are inscribed within the material's equilibrium. Seo Taylor Hyunki burns and scrapes the canvas, incorporating material transformations and accidental traces arising beyond the artist's control into the painting itself. Hayeon Kim uses concrete, fur, and water together to inject organic respiration into a rigid structure, exploring the process by which inorganic materials react like living organisms.

This project forms a cyclical structure between exhibitions, transferring the sensibilities and reflections of each previous show to the next through the participation of new artists. Each exhibition stands as an independent outcome while simultaneously becoming the origin of the subsequent one. Within this structure, the exhibition functions not as a singular event but as an ongoing process of experimentation, operating as a “field of transformation” that mediates between itself and renews within new contexts. In other words, 《Common Matter》 is situated not as a disconnected event, but within a flow where sensation is translated and rearranged into different forms. It is hoped that within this lingering resonance, it may function as a field that renews itself.