At the centre of the exhibition is a video that imagines the voice and memory of the land itself. Through fragmented narratives, the work traces memories held within the soil: displaced communities, buried microorganisms, erased landscapes, and the many attempts to occupy, map, flatten, and heal the site across generations. Narrated by a third-generation Zainichi (Koreans and their descendants who moved – or who were forced to move to Japan during the period of Japanese colonial rule), the work follows intertwined histories of displacement, ecological change, and the site's gradual return to public use.

In the entrance, a topographic wall installation developed in dialogue with Rotterdam-based landscape architects West 8 (whose proposal won the bid to re-develop Yongsan site) envisions the recovery of the site's topography as part of its transformation into South Korea's first national urban park. For this presentation, Lee has expanded the work with Stars and Worms, a suspended glass installation, where voices, sounds from the landscape, and recordings from inside the soil resonate through glass as fragile vibrations. 

In Aram Lee’s work, the trampled worm stands in for lives, memories, and forms of knowledge rendered vulnerable or invisible, yet capable of cosmic transformation.

This exhibition marks the first presentation of Lee's 2026 SONGEUN Art Award Grand Prize-winning titular video work as a spatial installation.