Ho Deuk, KIM_curated by Hyun Min KIM
The main point of this exhibition, ‘Shaking, Suddenly I feel the space’, is to interpret the qi, which is the basis of the Asian aesthetics, and to think about things, and the world, with an extremely modern perspective. As if the interpretation is done by a deep and long breath, and everything is naturally connected and flows like water. For that reason, this exhibition gives a feeling as if it was done unwittingly, but as a matter of fact, it was born out of the artist’s precise analysis on the space and plans; therefore, everything was finished without a single mistake. Each exhibition space on every floor in the museum is subdivided into three keywords such as touching, seeing, and feeling. Here, what Kant believed, seems to be realized through Kim’s work. Kant thought that imagination and the free play of wisdom, in other words, the amalgamation of analytical rationality and sensitivity, created great art. In this exhibition, one can see how elements such as reality and illusion, two dimensional and three dimensional, get to develop in counterpoint. Conflicting dichotomous elements such as construction and deconstruction, seen and unseen, body and soul, flow and stop, and a moment and an eternity, should keep the balance endlessly between the one another in order to survive each other: paradoxically their relationship is complementary rather than competitive. The creator of artwork is a being who, also paradoxically, becomes the destroyer. So far, Kim Hodeuk has been showing the paradox of creation; that a new creation can be born when tradition gets destructed and the artist destructs himself.
