Image: National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul
Tomiyama Taeko’s ‘Under the South Pacific Sea’ is a representative work by the artist, who lived from 1921 to 2021. The work was intended to represent the voices of victims of imperialism, including forcibly conscripted Koreans and Japanese military comfort women.
Part of the ‘Memory of the Sea’ series, ‘Under the South Pacific Sea’ depicts scattered skeletons and marine life intermingled in the deep sea. The scene addresses women exploited as comfort women during the Pacific War.
