Minjun Shin



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Styx(Samdocheon)

2022
 1Channel video, HD(Color), stereo sound
30’ 45”














At a time when I felt disillusioned with art, I unexpectedly became involved in a public art project that led me to work in ‘Miari Texas’, a well-known red-light district now slated for large-scale redevelopment. Miari is marked by discrimination and social divisions. By looking closely at the entanglements of life that surround us, can we begin to understand one another?

Whenever we speak of the red-light district, we are immediately divided.

In conversations about such place, one’s position and sense of class are revealed, often implicitly. At times, these words seemed to erase the lives of those who were still there, and that discomfort became the starting point of this film.

‘Miari Texas’ will soon be dismantled through redevelopment, but even if the physical space disappears, sex work—and the structural violence it reflects—will not. How, then, should we regard residents’ calls for redevelopment?

Through Samdocheon, I wanted to explore the lives that have been inscribed at the intersection of structure and existence, by looking into Miari Texas and the burdens of life and society that surround it.