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BUSAN BIENNALE

DIVIDED WE STAND

History is a recurring nightmare. Renewed tensions between NATO allies and Russia and China have plunged the world into a second Cold War. It was fitting then that the 2018 Busan Biennale, hosted in the only corner of the Korean peninsula not captured by the communist forces during the Korean War (1950–53), examined the postwar legacy of divisions, from ill-fated partitions made in

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