Between worlds: The young North Korean defectors exploring identity through art | NK News
July 19, 2024
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Between worlds: The young North Korean defectors exploring identity through art

Multimedia pieces from new generation of defector artists show their North Korean roots as well as their lives in South

Houses bathed in neon light. A stick figure parachuting down a rusty iron slab. A photo of the moon. Tigers in the shape of the Korean Peninsula. Messages written on children’s shoes.

These visuals have nothing in common at first glance. But for a new generation of defectors, they are expressions of their identities shaped by both roots in North Korea and new lives in the South.

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