No Clear Border

It represents the transition of Koreans’ perspectives on national division. North Korea’s isolation keeps its reality trapped in mass media and exists only as impersonal data. People are getting used to the reality of national division cause the older generation who had family ties is dying out. It also restores older peoples’ stories as a physical reality to raise young peoples’ awareness of history. In my installation, there is a transition from individuals’ reality to virtual reality, from emotional personal stories to North Korean propaganda videos. The upper texts on fabric are formed by nails which dissipate into screen print texts, and moves to the floor where propaganda videos filter out emotions. Viewers have to step on the images on the floor to read the personal stories and they can use zippers to detach or reunite these stories.
Advisor: BJ Krivanek + Ann Tyler

2012 MFA Thesis show, Sullivan Gallery