<오묘한 진리의 숲 2>는 위치인식시스템(LPS)을 이용하여 장소 특정적 사운드를 헤드폰을 통해 관람객에게 전달한다. 관람객은 미술관 주변의 광장과 정원을 헤드폰을 쓰고 거닐며 공간에 조응하여 배치된 소리와 함께 휴식과 사색의 시간을 갖는다. 헤드폰에서는 녹음된 자연의 소리, 음악과 공연 실황, 디자인된 음향과 더불어 난민과 이주민들의 기억 속에 존재하는 고향의 노래와 이야기가 흘러나온다. 이렇게 각기 다른 기억과 삶의 이야기를 담은 사운드는 미술관 광장과 그 주변 곳곳에서 헤드폰을 통해 울려 퍼지고, 비워져 있는 공간이 많은 사람들의 이야기들로 채워질 수 있게 한다.

Forest of Subtle Truth 2 conveys site-specific sounds to the audience through headphones by using the LPS (Local Positioning System). Audiences wear the headphones and stroll around the outdoor area of the museum and the plaza. While interacting with the sounds arranged throughout the outdoor spaces, they can experience a moment of rest and meditation. At the same time, the audience can hear recorded sounds of nature, music, live concerts, and sound arrangements along with old songs and the stories of such different memories and lives resound in the museum plaza and surrounding areas, filling the empty spaces with the stories of many people.

With Byung Jun Kwon’s (South Korea) sound installation Forest of Subtle Truth 2, the exhibition reaffirms its interest in the notions of time and space. Scattered across the width of the adjacent terrace, in eight stations at some distance from one another, are a number of plants and bonsai trees, as well as sculptures that, on close inspection, we realize are petrified wood from Madagascar that has been collected by Osage. By assembling together the found material – namely, bonsai trees, known as nature in miniature, plants and wooden sculptures – the artist turns the improvised garden into a haunting site-specific soundscape. Equipped with headsets, the viewers are invited to traverse the width of the garden to listen to songs of Yemeni refugees that the artist has compiled as part of his ongoing research. While tuning into these stories and voices, we are transported yet again to a time with no time, an everlasting present moment in which issues of exile and wartime displacement are regrettably a perpetual human experience.