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This image should produce the physical sensation of reaching toward someone you cannot touch — the particular cruelty of seeing a face you love trapped inside a rectangle of light. It should make the viewer feel the way a video call feels when it is the only thread holding a family together across political violence: warm and cold simultaneously, intimate yet impossibly distant. Drawing on the Dansaekhwa movement's meditative layering and material austerity — particularly Park Seo-Bo's Écriture series, where repetitive mark-making becomes an act of emotional endurance — the piece should feel like a Korean artistic tradition grieving its own divided peninsula.
A solitary teenage boy seen from behind in a darkened room, holding a small glowing phone screen at arm's length, the amber light catching the edges of his outstretched fingers....