The Ephemeral Wall

While he was taught that North Korea is South Korea’s main enemy, Moonseop Seo wonders what’s on the other side of the border that divides Korea. For apart from creating a physical division, borders, walls and fences also mark a boundary in thinking and imagination, underlining the ‘otherness’. Moonseop therefore wants to create new, more hopeful images that can build a new reality. In this installation, the existing materiality of borders made of concrete and barbed wire is substituted with a soap film. Using the inherent qualities of a soap bubble – impermanence and fragility – this design is an ephemeral wall, which soon enough will disappear, opening the way to encounter the other side.