Oneroom-Babel

housing crisis
fantasy
coming-of-age

The housing crisis, forcing people to live in non-suitable conditions, is a worldwide phenomenon. In this interactive artwork, the Korean artist Sanghee Lee explores multiple one-room apartments, typical residential spaces for many people in South Korea. She places the “onerooms” stacked in each other in a dreamy, coral-filled underwater world, emphasising the feeling of crampedness and inability to take a full breath. Filled with extracts from interviews with young people experiencing such living conditions, Oneroom-Babel turns the crisis of housing into a dream-like coming-of-age experience. What better place to showcase this work than Czechia, one of Europe’s least affordable countries to purchase property?

Author: Sanghee Lee

Countries: Korea (the Republic of)

Production year: 2023

Runtime: 15 min

Language: English

Control complexity: Advanced Interactions

Motion sickness level: Low

Premiere status: Czech Premiere

Program section: VR Exhibition: Beyond the Glass Ceiling

Location in DOX: Area C (Ground Floor)