DMZ Exhibition: Checkpoint
Paju, Gyeonggido, South Korea
September 1 - 23, 2023


Curated by Sunjung Kim


Particpating Artists:


CHE ONEJOON, SOYOUNG CHUNG, GIMHONGSOK,
HAEAHN PAUL KWON KAJANDER, KYUNGAH HAM, IKKIBAWIKRRR, SU-MI JANG, SUNNY KIM, MAKIKO KUDO, HYESEONG KWON, JAESEOK LEE, JUNG-HOON LEE, WOOSUNG LEE, MIKAEL LEVIN, MINOUK LIM, MOON KYUNGWON & JEON JOONHO, NA MIRA, OK SEUNGCHEOL, BOMA PAK, HYUNGJIN PARK, NOH-WAN PARK, SEONGLIB, SUH YOUNGSUN, SIKYUNG SUNG, KIM WESTFALL, TOMOKO YONEDA,
ZOH KYUNG JIN/CHO HYE RYEONG

Photodocumentation by Ahina

Pour it on the head, ends up on the heels (2023)
Pump, hose, water, soju, sandbags, plumbing fixtures, plastic bottles, custom-printed t-shirts, insects found in the Camp Greaves bathroom site.


(L to R) 

To Die of Too Much (2023)
Used LG “styler” steam wardrobe, custom printed apron, tins of SPAM, natural lacquer on hanji, newspapers, rubber mat, magnets.


Pour it on the head, ends up on the heels (2023)
Pump, hose, water, soju, sandbags, plumbing fixtures, plastic bottles, custom-printed t-shirts, insects found in the Camp Greaves bathroom site.



To Die of Too Much (2023)
Used LG “styler” steam wardrobe, custom printed apron, tins of SPAM, natural lacquer on hanji, newspapers, rubber mat, magnets.



To Die of Too Much (2023)
(details)
Used LG “styler” steam wardrobe, custom printed apron, tins of SPAM, natural lacquer on hanji, newspapers, rubber mat, magnets.





To Die of Too Much (2023)
(details)
Used LG “styler” steam wardrobe, custom printed apron, tins of SPAM, natural lacquer on hanji, newspapers, rubber mat, magnets.





Pour it on the head, ends up on the heels (2023)
Pump, hose, water, soju, sandbags, plumbing fixtures, plastic bottles, custom-printed t-shirts, insects found in the Camp Greaves bathroom site.



Pour it on the head, ends up on the heels (2023)
(details)



Pour it on the head, ends up on the heels (2023)
(details)



Pour it on the head, ends up on the heels (2023)
(details)




Under the Tongue (2023)
Charcoal, found cigarette butts in urinal.



Under the Tongue (2023)
(details)



Under the Tongue (2023)
(details)



The Myth (Zone) (2023)
Found "Cafe Sisyphe" matchbook, yellow PMMA.



The Myth (Zone) (2023)
Found "Cafe Sisyphe" matchbook, yellow PMMA.



Procession: Make-Believe You Me (2023)
Mirror, LED police lights, burglar bars, magnets, fire extinguisher, used textiles and clothing.


Procession: Make-Believe You Me (2023)
(details)



Procession: Make-Believe You Me (2023)
(details)
Mirror, LED police lights, burglar bars, magnets, fire extinguisher, used textiles and clothing.




fire with fire behind bars (2023)
Natural lacquer on hemp cloth.





fire with fire behind bars (2023)
Natural lacquer on hemp cloth.


Crushed as Rust (Sewer) (2023)
Natural lacquer (ottchil) with structural colour pigment, pounded aluminum, aluminum frame.



Our site-responsive installation combined discrete works and associative sculptural interventions that activated the washroom in the barracks of the former US military facility known as Camp Greaves.

Anchored by Procession: Make-Believe You Me (2023) - a sculptural work that adapts the familiar T-shaped warning lights that emulate police cars and are commonly seen along the highways of South Korea to prevent speeding. Embedded within a figurative sculpture that alludes to makeshift scarecrows we documented in rice paddies near the border at Gyodong-do, the flashing lights flooded the tiled shower room with blue and red light. Despite making the symbols of punishment and disciplinary action meaningless as soon as they are recognized by drivers, these flashing lights persistently dot most sections of the highway. Color theory holds that blue and red are complementary colors, yet they have increasingly become suggestive of the left and right in divisive global politics. Associative binaries like south and north, water and fire, full and empty, here and gone, whole and divided, rich and poor, up and down, you and me are complicated in an installation that favours porousness, in-betweeness and transgression as methods of survival in divided times.



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