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- 모름 MorumPublication . Amorim, João PedroA group of Korean artists living in Portugal set out to bring their works together in an exhibition. From this shared diasporic condition — a common origin, a shared destination — the exhibition 모름 / Morum arises as an opportunity to experiment with plays of proximity and distance, to seek echoes and divergences. What persists from their origin? And how does the place they now inhabit shape their artistic expression? Bringing together distinct methodologies, materialities, and concerns, this exhibition presents works that, in some cases, renew the Korean craft tradition, and in others, explore contemporary visual languages. In common, these works question fixed notions of identity and affirm geographic and cultural displacement as a generative movement — one that produces meaning. Rather than proposing definitive answers, the exhibition offers a visual dialogue in which identity asserts itself as a constant becoming: a fluid, hybrid movement. Although we live in increasingly globalized — and thus homogenized — societies, it is still possible to find certain cultural specificities that act as points of resistance. The thread that guides this exhibition is the concept of Morum (모름). Unlike contemporary European languages, where terms such as “ignorance” (from Latin ignorantia) or “unknowing” are formed through negation — in- and gnarus, un- and knowing — Korean language offers positive, self-contained terms like Morum (모름) and the conjugations of the verb 모르다 (“to not know”). Here, not-knowing is affirmed as a dynamic state: an opening toward the unknown, a fertile ground for possibilities yet to be imagined. In the mythology of European rationalism, not-knowing came to be seen as a provisional deficiency — a temporary failure to be overcome by the advance of reason. This philosophical, scientific, and cultural revolution sought to banish the darkness of ignorance, believing that sooner or later the lights of Enlightenment would dispel the unknown. If the Enlightenment inaugurated a universalizing logic in which all things must be known, in the Korean language the dignity of not-knowing endures — a natural, honorable, and even elevated state of being.