Coexistence_Mohawk Institute Residential School (2022)
The Mohawk Institute Residential School was a Canadian Indian residential school in Brantford, Ontario, Canada. The school operated from 1831 to June 27, 1970. Enrollment at the school ranged from 90 to 200 students per year.
Coexistence_Korean War (2018-2020)
In my work 'Coexistence', I explore the effects of the Korean war through the use of overlapping images of the Korean war and photographs of Korea in recent years. Although South and North Korea have signed the Armistice Agreement, the armistice was not a permanent peace treaty but a ceasefire, and the countries continue to be at war. Most Korean citizens have experienced the Korean war directly or indirectly through formal education and various media. However, they live while forgetting that they are still at war in order to escape the fear of war and the ongoing effects in their lives.
In my work 'Coexistence', I explore the effects of the Korean war through the use of overlapping images of the Korean war and photographs of Korea in recent years. Although South and North Korea have signed the Armistice Agreement, the armistice was not a permanent peace treaty but a ceasefire, and the countries continue to be at war. Most Korean citizens have experienced the Korean war directly or indirectly through formal education and various media. However, they live while forgetting that they are still at war in order to escape the fear of war and the ongoing effects in their lives.
Coexistence_Newspaper (2019)
The Sampoong Department Store collapse was a structural failure that occurred on June 29, 1995, in the Seocho-gu district of Seoul, South Korea. The collapse is the largest peacetime disaster in South Korean history, killing 502 people and injuring 937.
The Seongsu Bridge is a bridge over the Han River in Seoul, South Korea. The bridge collapsed early in the morning of October 21, 1994, when one of its concrete slabs fell due to a failure of the suspension structure.
Sewol ferry was a South Korean vehicle-passenger ferry, built and previously operated in Japan. It operated between Incheon and Jeju. On 16 April 2014, Sewol capsized and sank with the loss of 304 passengers and crew.