Ronald Rael
This Wall speaks to Korea’s architectural heritage while simultaneously confronting its erasure. In the same way that traditional choga structures once adapted to their environment using local materials, this installation proposes a new vernacular using mass-produced but culturally loaded tools ― brooms ― that signify care, ritual, and everyday labour. It questions the boundary between permanence and impermanence, between memory and modernization. As visitors gather around the base of the structure, the installation invites them to consider what it means to build not only with materials, but with metaphor ― sweeping the past into the present with each bristle.