Since she came back to Korea from USA in 2012, Jungeun Kim has known that the physical situation had changed, but she could not accept it with her heart. She spent a while delaying time without making any decent plans. Kim has still had an American woman named Vera in her mind. Vera’s age is similar to Kim’s biological mother’s, and she has been a roommate for five years and lived with Kim like a family. When Kim finally accepted physical changes in her mind many years after leaving Vera, she wanted to share her memories of Vera with her biological mother to have better relationships. She made the same dinner as those she had with Vera to her mother, and bought her the same gift as the one she bought for Vera. The exhibition shows Kim’s attempts to create a different relationship than ever by sharing memories of Vera with her biological mother. Kim looks back on what values delayed its acceptance, and questions when a new chapter opens through the exhibition.
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