homo migratio (2023)

Jeju Museum of Art, South Korea

Hominiji: Magnetic Field
Collaboration with Hyo Jung Bea

This work begins from a question: how does one move between different systems of belonging?

Approaching marriage from differing positions—married and unmarried—the project traces the rituals, expectations, and structures surrounding marriage in Korea. Through this lens, it reflects on the values one inherits, negotiates, and at times resists. As an immigrant artist, this inquiry extends beyond marriage into lived experiences of cultural translation, friction, and subtle forms of exclusion—moments when difference becomes visible.

The installation unfolds as a field of movement: constant arrivals and departures, dispersion and gathering, adjustment, survival, and change.

Rather than presenting migration as a singular event, Homo Migratio considers it as an ongoing condition—something carried through the body, relationships, and time. Presented within the broader exhibition at Jeju Museum of Art, the work situates migration not only as geographic movement, but as an emotional and cultural state—an ongoing negotiation of where and how one belongs.

Migration, survival and art - Where do you belong?