Migration Plan
2018

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Migration Plan (2018–2019) started with a simple observation: I felt I already knew Germany before I had ever been there. The image had been built entirely through search engines and digital media — a geography assembled from data before the body ever traveled through it. Into this virtual landscape, the project folds another system: Saju (a Korean practice of reading destiny through birthdate data) and superstition, traditional forms of fate-telling, circulated and processed as information.

What emerged was not contradiction but continuity. Superstition was never irrational. It was always a system for reading patterns in accumulated data. A friend's testimony, a fortune-teller's reading, a search result: in this world, they carry equal weight. Destiny becomes an update.

Working across oil painting, video, and sound, Migration Plan constructs a place shaped not by physical encounter but by everything that preceded it. Where belief ends and information begins is a boundary I have not yet found.

Migration Plan, Installation, 2018

Migration Plan (Still Cut), Single Channel, Color, Sound, 05’49’’, 2018

Untitled, 97.0x145.5cm, oil on linen, 2018

Untitled, 121.0x291.0cm, oil on linen, 2018

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