Burning Down the Museum, 2022, Single-channel video, 55 sec., Ed. 1/6, A.P. 2

Burning Down the Museum is a video work that, like the Post Vandalism series, addresses resistance against institutional art systems and dominant ideologies. The video virtually stages the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) Seoul engulfed in flames, presented as if it were being livestreamed on Instagram. Although it appears to broadcast a real-time incident, the scene is in fact a fabricated image created through digital technology and motion graphics. By transmitting the extreme event of fire or arson through the contemporary medium of Instagram Live, the work symbolically dismantles the stability and authority of institutional art, exposing the contradictions and tensions concealed within its structure.