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Like her other works, Won Seoung-won’s is a fantasy - the space is constructed by overlapping photographs one by one, like slowly knitting clothing one stitch at a time. It is also quite realistic in that it takes as its starting point small, trivial memories and episodes. While there are external similarities between Insa-dong and Altstadt, Dusseldorf, such as the fact that both have old traditional buildings and contemporary buildings in harmony, or that both are centers of contemporary art, what actually attracted Won Seoung-won to them was that they both witnessed her trivial stories and secret memories unfold under their skies. So she told her story in terms of the sky - the map of sky that connects the sky of Insa-dong with that of Altstadt. The audience is not presented with concrete stories to read as they were in the cases of and . They merely gaze at the blue sky, the not-so-solid blue sky constructed out of thousands of photographs of sky taken with two to three meters’ intervals. But what they actually see is not the sky: Following the ‘sky map’ with their eyes, the audience wonders what story is hidden in what piece of sky, or recollects their own memories hidden under pieces of the sky above Insa-dong. In the process, transforms a plain compilation of photographs of the sky into a book that starts to gather many stories.

By Nathalie, Bo-seul Shin / Curator, Total Museum of Contemporary Art