Exilèe

Cha made Exilèe ("exiled" in French) following her first trip back to Korea in 1979. For this simultaneous film and video installation, she embedded a television monitor into a freestanding wall and projected a Super 8 film onto its surface, superimposing the two forms of moving image. In the accompanying audio soundtrack, Cha reflected on the distance traveled from San Francisco to Korea as measured in passing minutes and the sixteen hours that separate the time zones between California and the country of her birth.