New Babel Tower

My artwork has used the motif of the tower of Babel. The tower was built in the form of Ziggurat,it's an outcome of people’s desire to reach the heaven.The structure of the Babylonian tower has been transferred into my work as reflection of social structure with class differentiation. In the film "Metropolis",Fritz Lang brings in motif of Babel tower but within context of the capitalism.In the movie the tower has 2 sections—the upper&the lower part—representing capitalist and laborer classes.The tower reveals imperialism in the neo-capitalistic world."New Babel Tower"seeks to expose the hegemony in society. The matter of my work is the English language. In fact,many Koreans are under pressure of using English,which shows that we are eager to become successful in the society.Judging people by whether who speak good English or not and being obsessed with English is in symbolic sense a violence imposed in society. The phenomenon gives an explanation why Korean feel insecure of being. The skyscrapers of the 21st century and the works of Malevich were the inspiration to my work.I put the monumental miniature of Babel tower on top—to show human beings are building another tower of Babel.