Echoes Toward the Future (2025)
UV-Printed Translucent Fabric with Video Projection.
70 X 200 (CM), Installation with Video without sound (1min 20sec)
Artist Note
Echoes Toward the Future (2025) is an experimental installation that reinterprets the bullet traces of the Jeonil Building, the symbolic site of the May 18 Democratic Uprising in Gwangju. This practice addresses the materiality of scars on architecture and explores how the remnants of violence can open new spatial narratives. A fragment of the building’s column, marked by helicopter gunfire, is extracted, UV-printed on translucent fabric, and animated through projection mapping. The sequence develops from dot, line, shape, to fabric, transforming the trace of violence into a generative starting point. The installation revolves around the tension between history fixed as a monument and history reactivated as a living sign. While the bullet traces have often been historicized as relics—confined to the logic of memorialization—the work repositions them as dynamic origins. The trace is no longer an endpoint of trauma but a signal toward the future, unfolding into lines and surfaces that weave new spatial possibilities.
The conceptual grounding of this work lies in Michel Foucault’s Heterotopia. Heterotopias are spaces where multiple temporalities intersect and heterogeneous layers coexist. The bullet points function as heterotopic marks: points where past trauma, present urban reality, and imagined futures fold together. The monument is reframed not as a static commemoration but as a site of temporal disjunction and renewal. By returning architectural scars to a performative surface, this work reinterprets the interaction between memory and space. The bullet dots, once seen only as wounds, become starting dots for imagining futures that resist ossified historicization. The installation invites audiences to experiences scars as multiplicities—both wound and seed, both memory and projection—transforming the visible remnants of violence into openings for imageanable urban futures.
