The Visitor: Lost Village (after Jong Nam), Jeju Island, Korea
Video and stereo audio
continuous loop
Special thanks to RaYun for multiple visits to Jong Nam with me and for the camera work.
2025
The Visitor: Lost Village is a series of works I created after visiting the Lost Villages on Jeju Island in South Korea. These villages were named to commemorate the small villages that were destroyed during the Jeju 4.3 (1947-1954). As of 2019, 122 villages are recorded as Lost Villages. Some have been rebuilt, while others remain unoccupied and untouched.
As I walked through the lost villages, surrounded by remnants of history, I wanted to revive the everydayness of the villages, rather than mourn the lost lives. In The Visitor: Lost Village (after Jong Nam), I stroll carefully through the villages as if visiting neighbours.