2010

A voyage through the history of a country. 1910-1945: The time of occupation during which the Japanese occupied Korea. Two fictions, one social & one historical, intersect. Japan obscures, forgets, erases. A fiction by omission. Korea, justified in its suffering, constructs a history of victimization and catharsis. A staged (and continually restaged) fiction. After having seen Japan, today I depart for Korea, to the prison of Seodaemun. How to find the appropriate distance when faced with these images of horror reconstructed as theme park?