There is another passageway at Jamsil subway station between Line 8 and Line 2. The length of this transfer corridor is more than 100 meters. Not long ago, there was nothing on the walls, but recently windows and doors to various rooms and warehouses were created there. However, we are unable to open these doors, not because they are locked but because they are fakes which have been drawn on black adhesive sheets. The shadow doors appear and disappear between the light (positive) and the darkness (negative) of real doors. The artist’s intention was to give passengers a sense of relief and solve the problem of dullness within the transfer corridor by creating doors and windows, which might induce an impulse for passengers to leave. A long wall in the passageway features signs for a toilet, electric outlets, ventilation fans, fuse boxes, electric wires, and small switches. The artist’s shadow work is not limited to things that one is likely to find while transferring between subway lines: in fact, she changes the transfer route into a house with windows, doors, and a fixed dresser that can be seen as we enter and leave the house. A radiator is also installed in the dresser, but even more absurd are a gate, electric pole, and garage that can only be seen from outside the house. Soojung Han effaces the boundary between inside and outside in her work. She allows heterogeneous things to coexist in the same space. Without separating or differentiating, she mixes and juxtaposes various spaces and objects, creating a grotesque environment. So it is no longer a transfer, nor is it the inside or outside of your house. It is an all-encompassing space in which non-unified and disparate things live together.
