I have made several pieces based on my actual alien registration number.
In researching alien registration number and its history, I created a story featuring a fictional character named “1111”.The work is an installation that recreates the house where that character lives.

 

The work was created using one of the disused public housing complexes.The story “1111” and a installation related to it.The story is based on the alien registration number (a number indicating foreign status in Japan). This work reproduce the home of the fictional lead character of the story “1111”. The story is in the form of a letter, and visitors to the exhibition can read the letter while sitting in the kitchen chair, feeling as if they were the main character's elderly man.
The home of “1111” is the home of a single elderly man, not knowing whether he is alive or dead. Each of the three rooms forms a different space (The kitchen of his home in Japan, the tangerine fields of his hometown on Jeju Island that appear in his dreams, and a hotel room on Jeju Island where a woman stays).

 

(Contents of the Letter)
A letter from a woman in the future with the alien registration number “B176404263” sent to a man in the past with the alien registration number “1111”.
A female Korean resident of Japan sparked by her own alien registration number developed an interest in those who received such a number for the first time under the establishment of the alien registration law in 1947.She begins to imagine a fictional character who, if someone had obtained an alien registration number for the first time, what kind of person he or she would have been. She names him “1111” and begins to write letters to him, whom she will never meet. Setting out on the search for this number, she began to uncover many facts of the past and came to reduce the distance between herself and 1111. During this search she came to link this unknown 1111 with the image of her own grandfather, developing an urge to visit his homeland and so made the trip to Jeju Island.