Installation view The Voice of Anyang

Along with Anyang at the Dawn of the Day: The City Dreaming of a Utopia, the artist also presents The Voice of Anyang in the archive room of the exhibition space. In order to tell stories of individuals who live within the confines of social mechanism (i.e.public authorities), the artist sent a letter to the citizens of Anyang asking them to share their old letters. In response to her request, four people sent in more than 300 letters they had been treasuring for anywhere from 10 up to 40 years. Based on excerpts from these letters, the artist created a new artwork. Intimate stories from the letters, which belong to a sphere in which public authorities are of little concern, are narrated by the artist and delivered to audiences at the exhibition space in the form of radio broadcasting. This encounter of the two narratives emerging from opposite spheres delivers a message from the artist, who attempts to reassess the present world.