1 items, 10ms
artist: Hwayeon Nam
Imjingawa is Hwayeon Nam’s first foray into borrowing from the documentary form. The root of the work is a Japanese song with Korean diasporic connotations, which the artist heard inadvertently years ago. While tracking the inception and history of the song, her research explored the song’s potential to live beyond “legal, national, ideological, and geographical barriers.” The song earned its fame when it was introduced to the Japanese band, the Folk Crusaders.
Hwayeon Nam’s practice employs an artistic language that vigorously investigates the movement and phenomenon of various objects operating in sync with social systems, as well as the structure and nature of time...