The Hand of a Primate Escaping a Building Where the Elevator Has Stopped
<p>The elevator connecting the city’s ground level with the subway station is a crossroads of two worlds that otherwise could never meet. Inside the confined elevator space, elderly people, individuals with disabilities, children in strollers, and foreign tourists with suitcases come together. They look at each other with curiosity, compete, and converse. However, the elevator can always stop in an “emergency.” This potential for an emergency (exceptional state) proves that these two worlds are inevitably “para-.” Yet, it may only be when we acknowledge this potential as part of reality that the cracks between these “para-” worlds begin to form.</p>
Authors: Kim Wonyoung
Editors: Ingo Niermann
Translators: Hakyung Sim
Copy Editor: Rosanna McLaughlin
Illustrator: Eva Fàbregas
Graphic Designer: Ana Domínguez Studio
Part of: Wild Papers