2022 Changwon
Sculpture Biennale

Transitional justice covers the full range of processes and mechanisms associated with a society‘s attempt to come to terms with a legacy of large-scale past conflict, repression, violations and abuses, in order to ensure accountability, serve justice and achieve reconciliation.

The conceptual art installation “Transitional Justice - Terminology“, which was created in its first variant in 2016, deals with the similarities and contrasts of Korea and Germany as historically divided nations by means of the thematically concise terms “arbitrariness/despotism“, “freedom“, “law/justice“ and “control“, whose meanings are interpreted differently in the two nations as well as in capitalist and socialist systems.

The artistic work takes up the theme of this year‘s Changwon Sculpture Biennale in an abstract philosophical context. Instead of the classical particles and waves in the wave-particle duality of quantum physics, thematically specific concepts intersect here in their contemporary meanings and interpretations.