CHE Onejoon explores the diplomatic, political, and cultural relations between Africa and East Asia from a microscopic perspective, unveiling the structures of relations that have not been noticed or seen in the current of international affairs. In Capital Black, CHE focuses on the lives and culture of African migrant workers in Korea, documenting them in photographic and video works, and inviting them to work together. The exhibition reveals the diversity hidden under the name of black, and examines the relationship between Africans living in Korea and Korean society.

Africans began migrating to Korea for work in the early 1990s, and this phenomenon is affecting and changing the landscape of DongDuCheon, Paju, and Songtan, which were under the flow of Korean Cold War ideology. CHE carefully approaches African migrant workers and unravels stories at the community, region, and labor level.

More and more multinational migrant workers are entering Korea's blue-collar labor market. Thus the current changing landscape of Dongducheon, Paju, and Songtan region predicts the future that will come across Korea. What CHE records and researches becomes not only the past, present, but also the future of Korea with its challenges as a multicultural society.

Sun A Moon (Director of Space Afroasia)