Heaven Baek explores how people gather and form groups, and the points at which their micronarratives intersect with the macrostructures of the state or society. Baek stages these concerns in theatrical forms, primarily in video and installation, thereby revealing how public systems intervene in the formation of the individual. Attentive to the asymmetries and fissures that emerge as an individual’s perceived time-space and personal utterances move into the public sphere, she explores how institutions and ideologies rearrange experience. In her recent works, Baek focuses on the voices of those consumed in proxy wars, connecting images of an era through microscopic acts of survival and juxtaposing the paradoxical sensations that arise between history and reality.