I see what I don't see

The work deals with the media censorship law in South Korea where videos containing inappropriate contents (i.e.tattoos, nudity, and smoking) are self-censored by the TV stations fearing penalties for breaching the law. The presented image is a scene from a well known movie "Tazza: The High Rollers", where the actress is smoking a cigarette. The inappropriate blurring in this case, made the scene awkward and even unintelligible to the narrative content. The work was a response to the arbitrary and rampant self-censorship by the media outlets, which in one case mosaic-ed painted breasts. By presenting the green screen (persons) together with the still cut from a TV broadcast version of the movie, the artist aims to make visible the work of blobbing through her "screenshot" of parody movie.

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The work deals with the involvement of various invisible actors (i.e., translating, subtitling, censoring) which mediates the encounter between a work of film and its audience, which ultimately de/forms the condition where the narrative is experienced.