Young In Hong observed the lifestyle and communication process of elephants living communally at a Chester Zoo in England, and made shoes for a deceased grandmother elephant, Thi, and her granddaughter, Anjan, in order to produce a scene of these elephants just having taken off their shoes at the exhibition space. These straw-woven shoes were completed through a collaboration with straw craft masters Chung Kyung Lee and Yeon Hwa Park. The soundtrack that surrounds the exhibition space and evokes various places of encounter between humans and elephants, including a forest in Africa, a water hole, an Indian wedding, and a zoo, was produced in collaboration with Miles Otto, an electronic musician, and Andrew Neil Hayes, a saxophonist. Such audiovisual environment made possible through cross-cultural collaborations represents a time and space where humans and animals coexist.

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