Yoyojin (Hojin Im)

I began this project with the belief that nations are not fixed territories but shared fictions constructed through mutual agreement and just as easily dissolved. It can shift overnight through natural disasters, war, bureaucracy, or ideology. What fascinates me is not what a nation is, but what remains when that imagined structure collapses.

Through a multi-layered AI system, visitors are invited to scan their appearance and generate their own ideal nation. Each participant receives a uniquely crafted poetic constitution, national flag, and anthem, reminding us that a nation is not a tangible object but a collection of invisible symbols. It is something deeply emotional, highly personal, and fundamentally arbitrary.

This work poses a quiet yet urgent question:

When the systems we rely on collapse, what inner structures do we carry that allow us to begin again?