“Bae seems to be performing a blatant paradox: that of the outsider gleefully destabilizing the hierarchies of a culture about which he has admittedly fantasized, but which has forbade him full entrance because of an unalterable ethnicity.”
An excerpt from Gallery 44
“Having been finished my one year in Canada and after the twelve-hour flight I arrived in London. That was three years ago, but I feel still a stranger here in England.”
An Artist Statement by Chan-Hyo Bae, Gatwick Airport, U.K. 2003
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