Filmmaker
*1979, Seoul, South Korea
CHE Onejoon, a visual artist and filmmaker, started his career as an evidence photographer. For Texas Project, Che photographed the declining red-light district in Miari in Seoul after the government initiated the anti-prostitution law in 2004. He also made short films and archives that capture the trauma of the modern Korean history by documenting the bunkers during the post-Korean War period and the abandoned U.S. Army camps in South Korea after the Iraq War. In recent years, Che produced a documentary project about the monuments and statues made by North Korea in Africa. Starting with this project, he is currently creating a documentary theater, a film, an installation about Afro-Asian culture and identity. Che has exhibited internationally at Taipei Biennial (2008), Palais de Tokyo modules (2012), Quai Branly Museum photo award finalist (2013), Venice Architecture Biennale Korean pavilion (2014), New Museum Triennial (2015), Louisiana Museum of Modern Art Afrika (2015), Busan Biennale (2018), Lubumbashi Biennale (2019) and others.