Hatred melts like snow

Hatred melts like snow is a piece constructed from demolished barbed-wire fencing. Jae-Eun Choi focuses on the fact that multiple layers of barbed-wire fencing stood as a wall for nearly 70 years, following the 248 km length of the DMZ that divides the Korean peninsula in half. The barbed-wire fence symbolizes the hatred between two parties, once the same people, subsequently foes divided by ideology to the point of directing military fire at each other. The artist employed heat to melt barbed wire that was dismantled from the Demarcation Line, and placed it on the ground: metal that was once a wall between us, now we can walk across. Barbed wire can be transformed into anything—a heart, confession, platform, shelter ... In front of love, hatred melts like snow.