Karolina Hyun Wilting


Eye on Art 2023

with Katharina Sook Wilting 

cinematography by Margarita Kosareva

light by Kris van Melle

costume by Olivia Sahl 

styling by Katharina Sook Wilting

sound by Esther Rzewnicki 

running by Katarina Holzmann Ekholm

set design with the help of Michiel de Haan and Stephanie ter Heide

In Battered Comfort, my sister and I batter rice with hammers until it turns into tteok (rice cake). 

The film contrasts the violence of the production of tteok and the comfort that its  con­sumption creates. Eating tteok is a communal act that generates belonging, while the act of battering it is inherently violent and creates pressure. By pounding on the individual, society is formed ñ like rice grains pounded into tteok. 
Nevertheless, tteok is fundamentally about sharing: through violence a sense of belonging and comfort is created. 
Belonging and pressure coexist in the same space, mutually reinforcing one another.  

(Hammering also serves as a cathartic release for my struggle with belonging in Korean culture. As a German-Korean, it is difficult to fit into my motherís country. No matter how hard I pound, I will not become that rice cake)









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