2025
Video installation, Wachs animation, color, stereo sound
Room 2.15 at the Academy of Fine Arts
Leipzig
10 minutes
Ten years ago, the grandmother asked her granddaughter to drip hot wax on her aching back. This scene, which was incomprehensible at the time, has stayed deeply in the granddaughter's memory. For the past six years, she has been living in Germany, about 8600 km away from her homeland, South Korea, and feels an inner fear that her elderly grandmother might pass away in the near future. Thus, she embarked on the work of animation to prepare for her grandmother's death. In the animation, she works through the question: “Was her back pain not
the pain of her life?” It traces the marks of her life. The wax serves as a catalyst for the memory of something incomprehensible – later, an interview takes place. The memories are drawn, altered, and reconstructed by the granddaughter. They enter her own world of memories and merge with each other.
the pain of her life?” It traces the marks of her life. The wax serves as a catalyst for the memory of something incomprehensible – later, an interview takes place. The memories are drawn, altered, and reconstructed by the granddaughter. They enter her own world of memories and merge with each other.