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Talk to you

single-channel video installation, 6 rotating drone speakers

color/sound, 24 min, 2021

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Talk to You is a work that constantly asks if we, who have been hurt by each other, can still live together by caring for each other. The single-channe  video continuously splits up into 16 multi-screens then merges back to a single one has conversations with six drone speakers.  Sanghee Song personally visited places around the world where scars of history are inscribed. She visited sites where indiscriminate terrorism against citizens occurred (Utøya Island, the Oslo 22 July Centre in Norway, and Paris, France where the pain of ethnic conflict resides Sarajevo, Srebrenica, Zvornik, and Goražde in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Korea's DMZ and places that inhabit memories of the democratization movement such as Gwangju and Jakarta, Indonesia. On the screen, the elements of ordinary daily life such as the blue sky and the trees seen from the window she encountered in the lands with different wounds all appear as if pieces of a puzzle are put together. While the pieces reflect our time in which we live in discord and division, they somehow resemble each other and create a connected landscape.
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Text excerpted from John Berger's To the Wedding is added to the artist's journey to the scarred land. The characters in the novel have conversations about their own love and loss, hope and despair with those they meet on their way to the wedding. In the story, the characters are sometimes placed in an ambiguous relationship between the perpetrator and the victim. Just as characters in a novel have a conversation with a stranger, the narrator of the multiple screens and drone speakers continue to talk about the existence of ‘you and me’ while Steve Reich's minimal variations flow.
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Dialogues visualized as a colorfulpalette, shapes of Koch's curves resembling different snowflake crystals, and endlessly changing kaleidoscope patterns cannot be led to a clear answer and leaves a point to think about each of our indeterminate identities and relative relationships. In the memorials of each land where a peaceful daily life has been restored, but the spirit of sadness still coexists, sanghee song seems to talk about an attitude of resilience in the face of hatred and fear towards each other, just like the characters who silently walk the path of life between despair and hope in the novel.

Talk to you Installation view single-channel video installation, 6 rotating drone speakers, color, sound 24 min

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Talk to you  Still image 

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