In the light of healing, my installation work seeks for the answers of my life.
In April of 1986, forty-percent of my body was burned while I was preparing my firs t solo exhibition.
I was looking at death, face to face. My life changed.
Is there an afterlife?
Why was I here ?
My children can continue their life even after I die , but my work stops the moment I stop living.
My work is completely dependent on me.
The doctors said my finger cannot recover forever,
yet I decided not to believe in the doctors and underwent 8 surgeries and 3 years of rehabilitation.
Every living moment was agony, but slowly, my fingers s tarted to move.
The fact that I was able to move my fingers again was a newly acquireds kill.
I started to work on projects that constantly kept my fingers and body working.
The first artwork from my new life was installation art.
I started to use UV light to introduce the souls I had encountered at the doorsteps of death.
I wanted my small existence to be transformed to a large installation work to express my life .
Untangling of the threads on a reel and dream- like images seen under the darkened UV light speak of my life.
My parents met in the refugee camp during the Korean War.
As an artist who has half-brothers and sisters in North Korea,
I installed Vanished Berlin Wall in the middle of Berlin and performed “Destroy the Wall”
Also I installed Korean Alphabets at the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)
I sent a message of peaceful reunification with light to the world.
In the light of healing, my installation work seeks for the answers of my life.