Sung Nam Hun

Sung Nam Hun presents Whispers of the Wind, a body of work centered on the Jeju April 3 Massacre. Since 2019, he has been documenting the massacre sites, the seas where victims were buried, survivors, shamanic rituals, and shrines using large-format Polaroids. In a deliberate act of transformation, he presses the photographs onto trees and rocks at these sites, physically damaging the images. This process reflects the artist’s contemplation on the inherent incompleteness of history that can never be fully captured in a single photograph. By incorporating nature into the work, Sung reveals both the fading and healing of collective memory. The silenced voices of the Jeju people are carried through the wind, which is a shamanic spirit, and the “whispers of the wind” is articulated through the archival power of photography, reinterpreted, and reestablished as the truth within the viewer’s senses and memory. His works explore the possibility of social and cultural healing through collective remembrance.