​  The Black Curtain series discusses some of historical deaths in the Korean society. We have been forgotten and have shown very little interest, or if not all we have deliberately neglected what happened in our history. Those unfinished historical events have been twisted and distorted and haunt us now. It is time to bring the forgotten past stories back so that we will be able to face what’s lost and forgotten, as well as what to discover and to remember.
​  The war that caused a trauma to the entire society has never ended nor properly settled but has smeared into the everyday life of Koreans and passed down to generations. There is a saying in Korea that goes “about a half of Koreans are children of refugees”. My grandfather left his hometown in Hwanghae (North) and settled in Seoul (South). And when my father was twelve, he discovered his father dying of a heart attack. Father and son had a nap together and one of them couldn’t wake up forever. 
  The Black Curtain series is both a portrait and a landscape that paint the deeply rooted complex and trauma in the Korean society. Disguised in the past looks, the landscape is an unresolved shadow of the present that follows continually. I bring traumas of the historic event to the canvas as if they are stars in the spotlight on the stage and situate them somewhere between the past and present, between reality and memory hence I can recreate and present vividly what lies before my eyes.