At the core of Yun Choi’s artistic practice lies an array of everyday images and massproduced objects from Korean popular culture that coalesce into an urban landscape of repetition and uniformity. In her works, the bluesky images that appear in Korean convenience stores, subway passages, lunch restaurants, and on street carts, gray office partitions, domestic cherry moldings, fluorescent lights, and flowerpatterned blankets become the characters of surreal—and sometimes nightmarish—installations and films. This new iteration of Where the Heart Goes, a twochannel mazelike video installation, is inspired by the artist’s experience of the pandemic and her encounters with online and offline images and narratives—posts—in Korea and their ominous speculations about the future. Choi explores the interactions between the film’s characters and banal objects trapped in the office maze, posing poetic questions about collective futures and the objects of our desires.
