Exhibitions
Constellations Warsaw
2025
Jin Rouxi
Reeha Lim
Where the Hand Forgets
Hosted by Raster
Wspólna 63 00-687
Warszawa
Dates_ April 12–May 24, 2025
Opening_ April 12–13, 2025
2025
Jin Rouxi
Reeha Lim
Where the Hand Forgets
Hosted by Raster
Wspólna 63 00-687
Warszawa
Dates_ April 12–May 24, 2025
Opening_ April 12–13, 2025
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Gallery Vacancy is pleased to present Where the Hand Forgets, a duo exhibition by Reeha Lim and Jin Ruoxi at Raster Gallery, Warsaw, as part of the Constellations Warsaw in 2025. Bringing together two distinct yet interwoven practices, the exhibition reflects on the spatial, emotional, and sensory thresholds that shape the experience of dislocation, memory, and transformation. Through quiet gestures and shifting architectural interiors, both artists trace the presence of absence—where perception lingers in objects long after the body has left. The exhibition runs from April 11th through May 24, 2025.
Reeha Lim (b. 1994, Seoul) presents six paintings that explore the fragile choreography between interior space and memory. Raised in Northeastern China after her family’s migration in the late 1990s, Lim examines belonging and sensory recall across domestic thresholds. Her paintings—depicting staircases, corridors, and partially opened doors—feature hands in mid-motion, as if caught between arrival and retreat. Painted on silk and mounted on hinged, hollow stretcher frames, each work tilts slightly from the wall, blurring the distinction between image and object, invitation and barrier. Jin Ruoxi (b. 1997, Harbin) contributes sculptural assemblages that reconfigure everyday materials through malfunction, disuse, and poetic subversion. A Paris-based artist and alumni at the École des Beaux-Arts, Jin integrates props and tools into theatrical compositions—mouse traps, curtain rods, sponges, and boxing gloves are displaced from utility and given strange agency. Her work, informed by a background in a multi-religious household and a familial connection to medical science, interrogates purpose, illusion, and the transformation of the mundane into the mythic. |
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