At Seoul’s Art Sonje Center, artist Meiro Koizumi’s 2019 work “Angels of Testimony” presents young people memorizing and reciting the confession of a 99-year-old Japanese war veteran. The supplied excerpt recounts his admission that civilians were lined up in groups of ten so soldiers could test how far bullets penetrated human bodies.
By placing an individual perpetrator’s testimony in the mouths of people who did not experience the war, the work connects remembrance with the difficulty of confronting responsibility across generations.