On Off Shore – DELTA | 2025
On Off Shore – DELTA
2025
Dimensions: 284 x 284 cm (each photograph 20 x 20 cm)
Digital print on PVC
On Off Shore – DELTA is a photo-based installation—a still-image counterpart to the earlier video piece On Off Shore – beta version. It extends the project’s exploration of the South Korean tidal flats (갯벌) as both political and poetic terrain. The installation engages with the memory of environmental violence—reclamation, pollution, and erosion—tracing visual echoes of industrial expansion that began in the 1970s and continues to shape South Korea’s coastal zones.
Here, still images, together with online video sequences accessed through QR codes, stage fictional evidence of a speculative ecology shaped by resistance, decay, and adaptation. The photo installation presents a fictive narrative involving three protagonists: the Korean tidal flats, an environmental activist movement, and the powerful South Korean industrial conglomerate KOHON. The displayed images consist of research footage, video stills, and AI-generated imagery. The photographic layout draws inspiration from the design of crosswords and board games.
Interspersed among the photo prints are QR codes, allowing viewers to access online video sequences that guide them along the work’s winding path through fiction, fact, and the artist’s own creative process. This project began as a film idea rooted in research into the topography and history of the tidal flats, in parallel with South Korea’s rapid industrial development.
Location: Bandung Photography Triennale, Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, 2025
