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One on One is a documentary video piece based on a site in New Malden, London which is shared by a South Korean food market and a group of North Korean defectors. At this site there is a small office for establishing the exile government of North Korea. It shows an ironic situation where an unexpanded democracy movement coexists with busy distributive trucks and people try to be their apolitical selves, then, this is a video about how capitalism surround their radical life. It focusses on their dream of establishing a government in exile whilst pursuing a day to day business distributing food. The film is composed of separate fragments and micro-narratives that function as a kind of bait. This open narrative is intended to lead the audience into creating their own sense of story.

Jeamin Cha was born in Republic of Korea in 1986, and studied fine art at Korean National University of Arts (BA) from 2005 to 2010. She also studied video at Chelsea College of Art and Design (MA), London. She researches the delicate conflict in significance between the individual and the social, visualising it in dramatic format. Her primary medium is video, she is making moving image works about the social and political dissension. She currently lives and works in Seoul.