Project

Obscured Record
(Invisible landscapes, unacknowledged testimonies)

Country

Korea

Obscured Record explores the fragile traces of marine life, time, and memory—preserving what has been erased, overlooked, or forgotten. Rather than treating the sea as a resource, the project approaches it as a living archive—holding memory, transformation, and evidence of ecological change. These traces, often overlooked by anthropocentric perspectives, are explored through natural marine materials such as fish bones, algae, oxidized stones, and ocean waste.

Through scientific and archaeological methods translated into sensory forms, the project emphasizes material intelligence, allowing the raw matter to guide meaning through its reactions, histories, and presence to reveal the sea’s silent records. By unfolding these obscured remains, it seeks to restore a lost connection between the ocean and human life.