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Maehangri

110cm X 110cm (each)

C-print  

2006

The place in the photo is small village called Maehangri (meaning a village with the fragrance of apricot tree blossoms) located in the Gyeonggi Province. In the contemporary korea history, however, this village is ironically in the middle of hot conflict among the US military in Korea, the Korean government, and the local residents over the damage compensation caused by the air force bombing in the shooting ground. According to the Korea-US Status-of-Force Agreement, the US air force bombing exercise site was designated in 1951, which was in the middle of the Korea War. Since then fifty years, Maehangri has been used as the US air force bombing exercising site. Maehangri, with such a beautiful name, became a dead village because if the still continuing bombing exercise of the US military.

On the seashore of Maehyangri, tow middle school teenage girls are shooting arrows.

Next thing we see is the dead bodies of the girls on the seaside.

What killed them?

Was it the U.S. bomb?

When you look at them closely, you would notice them killed by arrows returned like boomerang.

Then how would you say who killed them? 

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