​What I felt spending two weeks in the exhibition with my artworks is that this exhibition is about linguistic experience and simultaneously about girlhood. People cannot choose their gender, race, family, language, or nationality when they are born. From birth until becoming an adult and gaining agency, individuals absorb values from their surroundings and form their identities. Being born into conditions that one cannot change and also did not choose, such as being a biological female, Korean, and Asian, the exhibition explores the linguistic experiences of girlhood during a period where one lacks the decision-making power, constrained by societal expectations of gender roles and language.
 
My first reaction to the oppression that came with things not of my choosing was fear. As a powerless girl, I tried to correct and package myself to survive, striving to grow into the image of a woman desired by my family and society, fitting the name given to me. When I, as an adult woman, became aware of this contradiction, the emotion I felt was anger. Realizing how much time and effort I had wasted trying to become something other than myself, and find out this powerful force that was controlling me, I wanted to set the world on fire.
 
However, during the process of pointing out and dismantling these discriminatory practices, I realized that I am not just a simple victim. I became aware of my vitality and strength as a woman. Also, understanding that everyone in the world is a victim of the system and realizing that I have the power to resist and change it, my anger gradually transformed into love. Through this exhibition, I aimed to bid farewell to my powerless victimhood of girlhood and embrace a new chapter empowered by love.