This installation by South Korean studio ArchiWorkshop involved wrapping the interior of an abandoned house in Seoul in a layer of gauzy fabric to evoke a shamanistic death ritual.
Titled Welcome and Illusion of Life, the project saw the empty structure transformed into a memorial dedicated to a space that was once filled with life, but is now awaiting rebirth in a new form.
ArchiWorkshop was commissioned by the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture to realise the project. It sought to draw attention to the abundance of buildings in the country that have been demolished to make way for new developments.

The setting for the installation was a two-storey house located in a neighbourhood that has been abandoned as it awaits redevelopment.
This is just one of many new towns that have emerged around Seoul in recent decades. According to the architects, around 61 square-kilometres of land has been redeveloped into areas of mass housing since 2011, without any proper documentation of the changes and the lives of the previous inhabitants.

For the duration of the 20-day exhibition, the house's interior was shrouded in white fabric that created a ghostly appearance and partially obscured views of the surrounding cityscape through the empty window openings.
The installation recalled the traditional "gut" rituals performed by Korean shamans, including those performed after a death to open a passageway to the land of the dead.
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