South Korean artist Lee Bul at Venice Biennale: a statement of separation and tragedy

• Bul is one of South Korea’s best-known artists and her two pieces at the 2019 Venice Biennale reference two of her home nation’s most troubling affairs
• ‘Aubade V’ is made from the salvaged metal of dismantled guard posts in the DMZ; ‘Scale of Tongue’ references the 2014 Sewol ferry disaster