When I was in elementary school abroad, a classmate once told me that if I placed a baby tooth in my shoe, a fairy would visit overnight and leave a coin in exchange. I believed—and waited. But nothing happened. Despite friends’ varying advice and my own efforts to make it come true, the fairy never came. In the end, I slipped a coin into my shoe myself. That was how I chose to end the story. Like my childhood self, we continue to hold onto small, earnest beliefs. The exhibition Tooth Fairy explores this idea—belief for its own sake, and the quiet tension between longing and reality. Through the themes of Faith, Hope, and Love, the works trace the emotional and visual languages of dreams, superstitions, control, and vulnerability.
It reflects on the imperfect processes of belief, offering glimpses into where imagination, desire, and emotion converge. Tooth Fairy invites us to consider what we hold onto—and why—even when the magic never arrives.