In 2016, the artist visited the Democratic People‘s Republic of Korea (DPRK). During a tour of the Kimilsungia-Kimjongilia Flower Exhibition Hall in Pyongyang, the artist observed an orchid named after Kim Il Sung (1912–1994), the DPRK’s founding leader. According to the official DPRK book on the flower, the orchid was named during Kim Il Sung’s 1965 visit to Indonesia, when President Sukarno presented it to him at the Bogor Botanical Garden and proposed the name Kimilsungia.¹

The site-specific project was located in Reemtsma‘s former tobacco factory in Berlin, Germany. A song commemorating the flower, “Kimilsungia in Full Bloom All over the World,” plays on a cassette player in one of the factory‘s rooms — analogue media that can both restrict access and disseminate the restricted.