A meditative and complex installation, Exilée weaves Cha's personal experience, Korean history, linguistic play, and poetic structures to allude to the experience of exile. The piece also explores the distinguishing characteristics of its two media, Super–8mm film and video. A video monitor is mounted in a wall onto which a film is projected. In the differences between the rhythms of the editing, the scale of the images, the quality and sources of the light, as well as the relationship between image and sound, Cha's recurring concern with the theme of displacement emerges. Memory, another preoccupation, is further suggested by the use of repetition, fades, and afterimages, as well as by her reference to the attempts to silence Korea's language and culture during the Japanese occupation. Characteristically, the title itself also plays with language, suggesting both an exiled person and the act of living in exile.