This paper considered city as a palimpsest, and at the same time as aMnemosyne and archive. Mnemosyne has been acknowledged as heterogeneitythan linearity, by extension, been activized as an archive operating thereconfiguration of our history. In terms of Mnemosyne, city is close to us,but at the same time, is far different from reality. It is close, because itis based on where we live. But at the same time, it is far different, causeit has a potential to reconstruct our reality. In this context, this studynoticed recent artistic practices in Korea focusing Seoul as an archive,and tried to find alternative way of reading cities. Many artworksexpressed the process of forget, memorize and reconstruct the memoriesof Seoul, rather than just memorize them. These memories presentvarious visual variations by being expanded to social memories, recreatedand ambiguously juxtaposed with diverse layers of realities.
