A weight of Ideology_Mayday on_curated by Nathalie boseul Shin
‘A weight of Ideology_Mayday on’ is about a status that an individual takes in contemporary society pertaining to one’s regional, national, social, and cultural position. In this project, Kira KIM explores various historical events and human activities occurred in relation to irrational boundaries, social inequality and prejudice, hegemony, contradictions and icons in history, myth, and religion, and ideology. Though this exploration appears to be somewhat narrative or fairy tale like in general, his works are full of different signifiers of contemporary society by means of the window of humor and documentation. This is one side or social phenomenon of spectacle contemporary society, and fundamental contradictions and desires forming that society are recognized in this project.
Selected works
In featured four to six videos, drawings, and installations, Kira Kim metaphorically illustrates status quo of where he lives in at this time. For him, contemporary society is full of collisions and conflicts, resulting from regionalism within South Korea, division of Korean peninsula, right wing and left wing politics, a generation gap, and gender equality. This is a critical discourse of ‘here and now confront with emergency state’ upon which we must reflect. And this is what he is attempting to do through his work, questioning constant state of pressing situations.
‘A weight of Ideology_Mayday on’ is about a status that an individual takes in contemporary society pertaining to one’s regional, national, social, and cultural position. In this project, Kira KIM explores various historical events and human activities occurred in relation to irrational boundaries, social inequality and prejudice, hegemony, contradictions and icons in history, myth, and religion, and ideology. Though this exploration appears to be somewhat narrative or fairy tale like in general, his works are full of different signifiers of contemporary society by means of the window of humor and documentation. This is one side or social phenomenon of spectacle contemporary society, and fundamental contradictions and desires forming that society are recognized in this project.
Selected works
In featured four to six videos, drawings, and installations, Kira Kim metaphorically illustrates status quo of where he lives in at this time. For him, contemporary society is full of collisions and conflicts, resulting from regionalism within South Korea, division of Korean peninsula, right wing and left wing politics, a generation gap, and gender equality. This is a critical discourse of ‘here and now confront with emergency state’ upon which we must reflect. And this is what he is attempting to do through his work, questioning constant state of pressing situations.
