Still So (Mul Maeum) is comprised of nine scroll-like prints depicting jangseungs (Korean totem poles). These poles were made by activists resisting the building of the world’s longest seawall in Saemangum, which disrupted a major estuarine tidal flat, destroying the natural habitat for migratory birds. Located in Jin-me Yoon’s ancestral province, this seawall—stretching along South Korea’s southwest coast—dried out the land, endangered birds and displaced whole fishing communities. The jangseungs stand tall: raised by the activists as reminders of the once life-sustaining estuary, buried over by the Saemangum reclamation project. Here, in their haunted form as negative images, they now mark the loss of one of Asia’s most important wetlands and all that is lost along with it.

- Diana Freundl, Vancouver Art Gallery