An Obscure Tornado An Obscure Tornado

An Obscure Tornado (2019) is a piece that expresses the ominously whirling tornado of war that still remains in the Korean peninsula. Until not long ago, the Korean peninsula was at a flash point of war. With the battle between the North and the US intensifying, it looked as though war might really break out. The tragedies of so many faraway lands seemed to have landed right before us. The artist had been looking out the window when he saw storm clouds passing by the top of Lotte World Tower and this view, like a powerful tornado of war surging from far away, arrived like an omen of war.The route into the GP is still complex, and the gates of the demarcation line are made of multiple layers of barbed-wire fence without any crack to be found. This solid barbed-wire fence proves that we are still in a standoff. Kim SunDoo presents a metaphor of an anxious peace or a temporary stability, with a persistent shadow of war above it.