Minouk Lim’s installation “Currahee-Stand Alone” was showcased in the Demilitarize Zone of Gyeonggi-do, the region separating the nations of North and South Korea, as part of the group exhibition DMZ Exhibition: Checkpoint in 2023. This piece was one of 33 military blankets that formed the installation, which were suspended like rows of flags from the ceiling and covered with abstract, gestural paint and pastel. In the heavily regimented life of a soldier, the blanket becomes a shield from the external forces of discipline and confinement, and is the realm beneath which the individual may enter into a private world of dreams and individual thought.

This series continues Lim’s investigations of historic losses, ruptures, and repressed traumas, specifically related to the Korean War and the rapid modernization of the reconstruction era. Since the 1980s, Lim's work has challenged the neoliberal rhetoric of contemporary South Korean politics and its language around growth and development. She is interested in “the ghosts of modernization”, or those whose violent memories and experiences have been forgotten and strategically erased in modern Korean history.