"Museum of the Immigrating Garden" (2024), a part of Mami’s Vietnamese Immigrating Garden project, is an installation work site-specificaly for this exhibition. To understand the personal and uncertain phenomenon of "immigration" of the Vietnamese people who left their country and came to Korea, he received donations of plants and seeds from Vietnamese immigrants living in Gwangyang, Jeonnam Province. There’s more to it than simply collecting the plants; the work also presents a collection of stories of the immigrants’ lives through his fictional archived videos. Mami has tracked down plants that Vietnamese immigrants have individually imported into the country since the 1980s in Korea, Germany, Taiwan, ect... The living "Immigrating Garden" brings their plants together, creating another form of Vietnamese community there. The names and functions of the plants are not crucial to the work. Instead, the artist reflects the hidden collective voice and hopes for a new harmony between the people and the environment.
During the exhibition period, Mami will hold a “Vietnamese Immigrating Garden Party” He invites the Vietnamese people whom he had communicated with for the Museum of the Immigrating Garden, immigrants in the Jeonnam Province region and museum visitors to the terrace next to the Vietnamese Immigrating Garden. This party is an extension of the "performative installation," allowing people to share food, engage in conversations, sing, and dance. Through it, Mami hopes for a journey where everyone faces each other and walks together.