경계인을 위한 지도

I grew up moving between China and Korea. Conditions that define me — such as nationality, language, and even my birthday — have always made my identity unstable. This experience, which cannot be reduced to a single answer, has become the fundamental question that drives my work. I explore the uncertainty and fractures arising from a borderland identity, and attempt to extend them to a social dimension. Instead of concealing or mending my instability, I reveal and record it, seeking new relationships and meanings through the process.

오예지 Yeji Oh 吴礼智
xhdpwl@naver.com

<경계인을 위한 지도> A Map for the Border-Dweller, 펠트 카페트에 아크릴릭 물감, 162.2x336.3cm, 2024
Acrylic paint on felt carpet

This work remaps onto a cartographic surface the coordinates and contexts of the scrawls collected in 950km(2024). A map is conventionally a tool through which power classifies and administers space, but here it is transformed into a counter-cartography that records what official maps do not capture — markings on the verge of erasure, and anonymous utterances. The map connecting two cities functions not as a simple route but as a topography of identity formed between migration and borders. A borderlander is one who cannot fully belong to any single space, and this map redraws the terrain that such a being has sensed and documented across the distance between two cities.