Counterpoint is a series of still lifes that revisit the artist’s family history of migration, tracing the silences left by Japan’s occupation of Korea and the peninsula’s division as a Cold War proxy. Crafted from modest, elemental materials, the series summons an animistic syntax of nature as it appears within Korean shamanistic traditions dating back to the twelfth century—belief systems that endured as forms of cultural and spiritual resistance under colonial rule.

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