Brine Lake (A New Body) “is a video and sound installation that meditates on the interrelation between ethnicity and ecology. Two female protagonists converse in the Korean, Japanese and Russian languages with two unseen employees of a fictional iodine factory. Remaining muted for us and functioning as one entity with the cameraperson, the ghostly interlocutors invite the viewers to move between the work’s overlapping episodes. Throughout the conversation, we learn about iodine and its natural origin in deep sea brine lakes. In these highly saline underwater environments, bodies of dead organisms never decay, lingering in the transitional state. The subtle cues in the dialogues gradually begin to translate the process of iodine recycling into a metaphor for statelessness and assimilation.”