<Macondo>

The title of the work, <Macondo>, is the name of the fictional village, in which Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez’s Nobel prize in literature winning book<Cien Años de Soledad> (1967) is set. It is an imaginary space where the history of Central and South America dominated by the West is condensed and sublimated into a novel. The background of the VR video is a virtual space created based on the data from the building that played the role of the Central Intelligence Agency where someone was tortured, and currently houses the School of Visual Arts of Korea National University of Arts. Against a backdrop of the sound of this building, the adapted voices from statements and interviews of those tortured by state power, including the Central Intelligence Agency in Imun-dong, during the era of the National Security Agency, and the whispers reciting the last part of the novel <One Hundred Years of Solitude> are resonating.

“The time where the place of the past stayed in the space of reality does not completely disappear, but rather takes the form of layers piled up like geological strata, where the history of oppression beautifully expands the fictional time and space in a new way.”