_AV Buddha_ (2022), is an extensive kinetic sound installation in the form of a Buddha figure. Archive material on the horrors of the Korean War is presented on small mobile screens that make up the Buddha's face. The contrast between the spiritual and the mechanical is central: in the black-and-white films, we are confronted with marginalized groups that history has overlooked, while the Buddha figure is brought to life in a mechanical symphony, only to then fall silent. Hankyul links the work to the contemporary mediation of disasters and mass death, where the short time horizon in social media leaves no room for slow and more time-consuming processes such as grief. The title _AV Buddha_ refers to the iconic work _TV Buddha_ (1974) by the South Korean artist Nam June Paik, which, among other things, thematizes the relationship between East and West, religion and media society, surveillance and control.

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