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Seung Young KIM, Savina Museum of Contemporary Art
Birth
1963, Seoul
Genre
Sculpture, Installation, Photography, Media, Performance
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Seung Young KIM_curated by Jae Hyun KANG
With the themes of communication and memories about disappearances, Kim is a media artist who works in sculpture, installation and performance. Kim's work helps to heal the wounds from relationships and brings back memories about disappearances or abandoned things through a way of appreciating art, which enables the audiences to open all physical sensations such as vision, hearing, and tactile senses. In other words, Kim attaches new values and forms to a forgotten object. By tracking back traces of time in each artwork, he captures the sounds of everyday life and transforms the exhibition space into a space of introspection as well as a massive space of life through the use of natural materials such as water, fallen leaves, and mosses. Such his installation work eventually leads the audiences to the contemplative mood, while allowing them to experience the 'creation' and 'extinction', 'communication' and 'disconnection', and 'heal' and 'traces' that everyone can sympathize with.
“Including myself, many people experience disappointment and the wounds through relationships. And they overcome these in a variety of different ways. To me, my work is a healing tool for such wounds. The work is a means of tool for interactions with other people as well as the society. As Louis Bourgeois said, “I am a prisoner of emotions. I have to tell my own stories, and I have to forget and forgive. That's what makes me free”, my work is the way of my communication with one another and also the way of relieving my psychological pain.”
from Kim’s artist note
