Project Archive collects the works of twenty-one artists, around the issues of nostalgia, home, and understanding of self in relation to time. Through various mediums ranging from poetry to ceramics, the book explores and re-evaluates our understanding of history, serving as both a physical archive as well as a collective practice of archiving.

This project started in March of 2020. Though at various intensities and places, the past year has uprooted us all—from cities, people, and values. These changes prompt questions surrounding what we are used to calling “normal,” and necessitate a new normal. How or where do we start such a change when our understanding of the past, present, and future is unsettled? Where do we re-root ourselves?

Walter Benjamin, in On the Concept of History asks, “Are we not touched by the same breath of air which was among that which came before?” Throughout this project, we record how our waves meet one another—or the shared breath of air. Project Archive is a place of meeting—where interlockings of inspirations and talents, of people, of time, and of similarities and differences manifest. It is our response and our offering to the world.

All profits donated to G Foundation to support teens from low-income communities, specifically with menstrual products and through reproductive and sexual health education.

Editor: Min Park
Size: 208mm x 274mm
Pages: 256
Language: Korean and English