부유하는 시간: Hong Nam-ki

My focus is on events in modern and contemporary Korean history that have been manipulated, distorted, or left mysterious, particularly the points where these “events” collide with personal experiences I or others lived through. I visualise these intersections through animation and drawing. 

In earlier works, I constructed stories by treating mysterious events and their locations as factual, using new reports as a starting point. I then combined these factual events with personal imagination, reworking them into independent single-channel videos and drawings. 

My new work 《부유하는 시간》, follows this approach but expands it further. I record and collect specific sites, events, objects, and textures, then reprocess them into a multi-layered presentation that includes two-channel video, drawings, standalone 3D animation, and poster-format drawings. In particular, clues, objects, or figures in the video that pass too quickly to be clearly seen will be visualised through drawings and posters, creating a more dimensional experience. Through this process familiar environments and objects collide with personal imagination and alternative realities, allowing viewers to experience the strange confusion and unease that emerge from that confrontation.