inouk Lim is a powerful chronicler of Korea’s national suffering. At the opening of the 2014 Gwangju Biennale, Lim installed two shipping containers bearing the remains of civilians massacred during (2014–20), which comprises more than 1,370 wooden walking sticks carved by Eui Jin Chai, who was a survivor of the Mungyeong massacre on December 24, 1949, when the South Korean army slaughtered 88 villagers suspected of communist sympathies. Chai lost nine family members, including his mother and his brother, whose body covered his during the mass execution; he spent the rest of his life, until his death in 2016, attempting to keep alive memories of the crimes denied by the state for more than five decades.
