Hello, I’m Hyesu. I live in Tokyo, Japan, and mostly write in Korean.

Living with more than two languages means living in more than two temporalities. Just as a single body holds multiple sites of memory, language isn’t necessarily bound by national borders. Some memories carry a language of their own, and I often think about the politics that exist between those layered times.

I usually introduce myself as a curator or researcher. Mostly when I need to sound proper. But to be honest, I’m not very fond of the word. Because what I do—making projects and exhibitions, writing, researching, reading and thinking, and simply getting by—are all too entangled to be separated.

This page came out of that entanglement. Rather than a neatly polished portfolio, I intend to keep it as a kind of living record, a space for encounters, a notebook for testimony.
Please feel free to drop by anytime and say hello.

P.S.
I have a soft spot for the dead, the invisible, and the unspeakable.