lEAVE EARLY AND COME BACK AT DUSK, 2011

Color photograph 80 x 115 cm


For this work, Kaisen took outset in a photograph on the front cover of her grandfather’s book Annals of the Jeju Women Divers’ Anti-Japanese Resistance concerning the Jeju Women Divers’ Anti-Colonial Resistance. The photograph is taken by the lava coast of Jeju Island where her mother and grandmother used to dive and from where the divers began marching in protest.

Exhibition view, War Baby Love Child, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, 2013