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SONG Kicheol, <Already Peacefully Existing Here as Always.>, Mixed midea, variable, 2016
SONG Kicheol Already Peacefully Existing Here as Always.
Looking at the dead bodies of children washed to the shore, I feel in my bones that we are living in a free but not an entirely free world. Those that can freely move across territorial barriers are non-living things. Such barriers exist like invisible ghosts between territories, territory and life, and lives. They separate us endlessly and disable us in confronting the real hostilities. This separation is not the same as Apartheid, the notorious racial segregation of Republic of South Africa in the past. <Already Peacefully Existing Here as Always>(2016) visualizes the fundamental principles of iron bars installed on the walls that enabled separation with unknown neighbors and protection of private property rights. By doing so, it enables the confrontation with ghostly Apartheid. A video of a man escaping from a disaster through a window and a tree hanging in the air with its roots burnt up, a photograph that reveals the hidden weight of the scales of a balance enable the coexistence of hostilities and create works of organizing a new life in the current situation in which the residues of such coexistence are maintained. |
