In NFT gallery, Sun Mu pairs Kim Jong Un with Mickey Mouse to make statement about peace on Korean Peninsula
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un depicted in Sun Mu’s digital art, “Let’s play together,” alongside Tinkerbell and Simba | Image: Sun Mu (edited and reprinted with permission)
Daffy Duck and Mickey Mouse are characters most would never expect to see in North Korean art. The same goes for an image of DPRK leader Kim Jong Un holding an American flag.
But for one North Korean propagandist-turned-artist who now lives in the South, injecting these figures into his work is a small rebellion against a former life dedicated to glorifying the regime in Pyongyang — a rebellion that he is now seeking to spread via the blockchain.
In a new exhibition, the defector artist Sun Mu has moved his work out of the real world and onto a platform that helps people buy and trade non-fungible tokens (NFTs), an application of blockchain technology originally conceived as a way to help artists create...
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