KYUNG EUN KIM

Recording Dreams

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 23:09:40 +0900

Everyday I dream… and though the dreams seem vibrant at the moment of awakening, they quickly fade and are eventually forgotten, adding to the feeling of lost time. By recording my dreams each morning through narration and drawing, I wanted to give it a lasting existence. Recording Dreams_10/30/2011 Recording Dreams_12/23/2011 Recording Dreams_10/18/2011 Recording Dreams_10/13/2011 Recording Dreams_10/28/2011 Recording Dreams_06/24/2011 Recording Dreams_07/22/2011 Recording Dreams_1.......

Seizing moments(Walk in me)

Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:01:42 +0900

The first in a series of planned short films, puts the viewer in the center of the action, so to speak. With cameras facing each direction, I walked down the busy streets of Seoul to film my surroundings. In the installation, these videos will be projected onto four walls of a room and at various points, all goes quiet and the action slows to add to the viewers awareness of the monotony of everyday living amid the busily flowing but impersonal relationships with the people all around, to seize the moment, creating a perceptive sense of isolation among many. .......

Home, Hoengseong and I_2011

Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:00:27 +0900

An experiment in randomness, this video documents delving into a map to confront uncertainty and take control of lost intentions. I found my place in the map then zoomed out and blindly chose a location. I homed in on the site then journeyed there to conform to my decision to experience the uncertainty of the world and confront it. Home, Hoengseong and I 2011/ 3’49” / Single channel video Home,Mujoo and I 2011/ 3’36” / Single channel video An experiment in randomness, this video documents delving into a map to confront uncertainty and take control of l.......

A variety of love_2010

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 23:58:23 +0900

A Variety of Love (VoL)2010 / 3’22” / Single channel videoMore of an abstract painting than a video, VoL is made up of distorted human body parts and flower petals as visual metaphors of identity and love. In a world of uncertainty where belonging is missing, love alone can prove true, and yet again, love is selfish too.

Finger Prints

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:43:25 +0900

06/09/10 Finger Prints 2011 / 53.5cm x 21cm / Mixed media The sense of touch is one of the most tangible experiences we can have with our surroundings. If we doubt something, we must touch it, and once touched, it becomes real to us. As such, documents the fingerprints I leave on objects throughout the day to prove my existence within my immediate surroundings – the touch here being that of the objects touching me and verifying my reality. Fingerprints are a unique and distinctive feature of every human being and we lea.......

Trace of slumber - Ibul_2011

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 23:50:44 +0900

Trace of slumber - Ibul 2011 / 27cm x 21cm / Mixed media (Ibul is the Korean word for blanket) I wanted to chronicle the hours I spent in sleep and observe the results to retain a sense of their passing, so I recorded the final position of my blanket on polaroid to discover the essence of the repetitive but varied movements of my sleep.

At Winter's Edge_2010

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:57:01 +0900

At winter’s Edge2010 / 3’54” / Two channel video is a two-channel video regarding my poem about change in life. The narrator stands at a precipice and hesitates to take the plunge. Visual images at top show a straight on perspective projected on the wall, while those below show a downward perspective and are projected on the floor below to add to the viewer’s feeling of apprehension.

Recording My Life_2011

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:19:09 +0900

Recording my life series is regard to monotony of everyday life and whether or not I “exist” in life. This concept developed itself from the feelings I have from living in a large metropolis like Seoul. I often question whether I truly exist in this teeming metropolis because every day seems to be a monotonous carbon copy of the last one. Perhaps, it is the feeling of gesellschaft that we often feel when living among so many people and have many impersonal interactions in a big city. Questioning my existence and the monotony of life brought about another concept – forgetting. I forg.......

Trace of slumber_2011

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 23:24:57 +0900

Trace of slumber 2011 / 100cm x 200cm / mixed media I sleep everyday in the same bed in the same bedroom. But when I look back on it, I have a sense of lost time. Do those hours really exist? Certainly, they were there, but in their continuous recurrence are they somehow lost? In , I chronicle my movements in slumber, through a chemical process involving sweat, pressure and a revealing compound of Ninhydrine and Iso-Octane to verify their passing. Trace of slumber_#1_11/01/2011 Trace of slumber_#2_11/08/2011Trace of slumber_#3_11/09/2011 Trace .......

Uncertainty_2010

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 20:54:47 +0900

Uncertainty 2010 / 2’03”/ Single channel video Grounded in the contextual backdrop of the song “Que Sera Sera,” this video shadows the life of two generations of women in Korea. The seemingly soft reminiscence of the sequence of pictures from mother’s childhood to motherhood and on to the daughter’s life, is followed by an intense expression of disquiet felt by the young daughter. Her anxiety for the future is based in her identification with mother and resistance to the common destiny of women in Korea. The final scene turns suddenly cynical and barren to convey the ultimat.......

Aporia Series _ painting (2009)

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 01:41:28 +0900

Absorbed with contemplations of the body as it associated inner being with gender, my early work was focused on the tension between the expression of sexuality and the inhibited nature of Korean society. Projects depicted the feelings of emptiness that modern women experience and expressed the emotional struggles to succeed as a woman in Korean society. is a series of paintings based on borrowed images from fashion magazines. In the process, I cropped them and altered color schemes to best express the feeling of emptiness experienced by modern women.

2007-2010

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 01:32:18 +0900

During my studies at Seoul National University’s department of Fine Arts, the themes of my artwork have changed but the core concept behind all of them has remained the same. My work has always focused on the essence of my being and I found that my body is inevitable to think about expressing essence of my being. When I was an undergraduate, my early work associated my being with my gender and focused on the tension between sexuality and Korean society. Many of my projects depicted the feelings of emptiness that modern women feel and expressed what I felt during my struggles to succeed as .......