김원진은 불완전하고 왜곡되는 기록을 기억에 비유하여, 모든 순간이 불완전한 연대기로 이루어져 있음을 이야기한다. 경험한다는 것은 읽어 내려가는 과정이고, 기억한다는 것은 이를 다시 새로이 읽는 행위이다. 그런 점에서 타인의 문장은 타인의 기억을 만나는 과정이며, 출판된 기록물은 집단의 기억을 은유한다.
작가는 컴퓨터 고장으로 인하여 데이터를 복원하는 과정에서 이미지의 일부가 날아가 원색으로 바뀐, 일명 글리치(Glitch: 일시적인 오작동이나 충돌로 인하여 미세한 노이즈가 생겨, 예기치 못한 결과가 일어나는 현상) 현상이 일어난 화면을 발견하였다. 이 경험으로 시작된
Kim WonJin compares incomplete and distorted records to memories, saying that every moment is made of an incomplete chronicle. To experience means a reading process, and to remember means an act of reading it anew. In this sense, sentences written by others indicate the process of encountering their memories, and published records are likened to collective memories.
The artist came across a screen where a glitch (an unexpected outcome due to minor noise caused by a temporary malfunction or crash) occurred, erasing some of the images and turning the spots into primary colors in the process of restoring data after a computer breakdown. The Land of the Glitches, born out of this experience, is a work composed of collected records. The intention was to represent in space the fact that, although collective memories are cut out according to social conditions that also affect personal memories, we in the time see them as beings that perceive from the outside. In the exhibition room, there are also drawings based on heaps of published books and the artist’s acts of writing down and erasing her petty thoughts. Records that have been cut out and resemble segmented dots look like an error encountered on the computer screen. The artist states that the error does not deviate much from the defined category and is a highly natural phenomenon caused by minor differences, and shows that the scenes of past history and the contemporary age, made of events surrounding us, are aspects that consist of errors.