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This is the Way the World Ends Not with a Bang but a Whimper 

Tile-wall installation with 8 in-wall speakers

Total 445 tiles with 20cm x 20cm each 

color/sound

Dimension variable, 2017

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This is the Way the World Ends Not with a Bang but a Whimper  installation view  MMCA 2017

This is the Way the World Ends Not with a Bang but a Whimper, created with a collection of explosion images from different periods and areas, from atomic mushrooms from 1945 to clouds caused by airstrikes of ISIS.

The drawings printed on the grid of Delft Blue tiles distills the history of Sino-Dutch trade, while hinting at the intersection of religious and monochrome paintings.

 When you are reaching a tile-wall, unfamiliar speeches come out of intermittently installed speakers: greetings in 55 different languages that were included in the Golden Record sent along with the Voyager unmanned solar system (1977) probe, played back through the Google text-to-speech system, with blinking speaker lights seem to communicate with other speakers or with us, like satellites. The machine-produced broken Korean is strange and bizarre, as one would expect of earthly sounds that returned from space.

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tile insltallation 320cm x 160cm

tile installation 320cm x 160cm

USS Bunker Hill was hit by kamikazes piloted 

by Ensign Kiyoshi Ogawa and

Lieutenant Junior Grade Seizō Yasunori on 11 May 1945

tile installation  220cm x 180cm

pencil drawing 2017

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