Guidance by Dokkaebi Fire
For the purpose of collection, preservation, and recording, numerous faces that existed in different times and places densely gather in a single space. Among them are photos of Koreans taken during the Japanese occupation era for physical measurements and Buddha statues with severed heads for reasons unknown.
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Jean-Luc Godard likened films to “museums of the night”. Museums are spaces where the power dynamics engraved within art, history, and media confront each other in a convoluted way, and are places of theft that allow films to be born. In Guidance by Dokkaebi Fire, we follow a dokkaebi fire toward a fictional museum full of headless Buddhist statues, anonymous bodies, and portraits of Joseon people. Each of the photos, pieces, and paintings sketch unrealized imaginations as well as histories that have not been resolved on the surface. As such, film screens are places of ghostly museology that contain vanished records and create manifestations of fiction that cannot come to being. (KIM Byeonggyu)
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Justin Jinsoo KIM⎜justinjinsookimart@gmail.com
Justin Jinsoo KIM
