It talks about linguistic translation and casting using Lee Sang’s poem, The Last Moment.

When casting to replicate something, a mold is filled with a material and hardened to create the replica. Linguistic translation is looked at in this way. If a mold is made of a certain text, and a different language is the material of replication and hardened, what would there be?

As technical reproduction has allowed us to enjoy artwork beyond time and space, a way of language reproduction called translation has allowed us to enjoy writing beyond different cultures and limitations in the ability of languages. Translation of language can be done by a person and machine, and both of them do not always perfectly deliver the original intention. As translation can make mistakes and does not perfectly deliver the original intention, replicated apples are modified and even smashed as if fallen from the tree.

As the apple of the tree of knowledge in the Bible, Newton, Cezanne, Rene Magritte, Paris, Steve Jobs, and Alan Turing, an apple in human history is the symbol of a new starting point with an ending and knowledge. A fallen apple allows one to translate the surroundings and see with a new point of view.

Kim Jiyeon, 2020