Hwayeon Nam’s practice employs an artistic language that vigorously investigates the movement and phenomenon of various objects operating in sync with social systems, as well as the structure and nature of time. She unveils a history of human desires as well as collective sensibility, both through the work of tracking discovered archival objects. Her recent work is driven by extensive understanding of choreographic movement, with which her video sequences are finely elaborated. Nam strongly demonstrates her archival epistemology through vigorous exploration of cultural diasporic products such as song and dance; colonial acquisitions and stories of imperialistic treasure collecting; domains of natural science like flora and fauna, astronomy and so on. The subject of her works are mounted with human desires, reproduction of signs, acquisitiveness, and fantasy, fulfilling cultural projections over the long history of human existence. Her works not only pose the fundamental question of how we experience historicized symbols and representation from today’s ubiquitous but uniquely drifting images. Nam has been successful in choreographing and rehearsing time-navigation, through which archives breathe and animate toward the future.