When the subway train moves, passengers can mostly see only the dark tunnel when they look out the window, except when the train stops at a platform. Occasionally, Line 2 runs aboveground, allowing passengers to enjoy views of the Han River. However, since most subway trains primarily travel underground, there is constant curiosity about the scenery above. Accordingly, the artist captures both underground and aboveground landscapes from the perspective of the control room operator, editing the vertical video footage of the running train successively and montaging the images on the lower part of the screen. In Subway Line 2, the camera’s perspective is aligned parallel to the eyes of the electric train as it runs throughout the entire city of Seoul, enabling us to see subway landscapes that are typically inaccessible to passengers—railway tracks, people waiting on subway platforms, and outside scenery. These images contain the interplay between what is shown and what is hidden—the subway’s outer cover (the station) and the hidden layers (the railways), the repetitive crossing of light and dark, and the shifts between movement and pause.
