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Kim Joohyun’s architectural installations in geometric, minimal forms show us various and mundane everyday lives within the sense of contemporary art discourses on ‘science and art,’ and ‘public art.’ Taking on various concepts from contemporary science and intrinsic characteristics of the materials as starting point, her work that is often a labyrinth of organically linked minimal structures, acquire uncanny vitality. From “Pouring,” a series of minimal construction that emphasized physical properties of the materials during the 80s through 90s, “Building” and “Hinges” that synthesized hinges or square plates as a unit to expand into more complex structure in the late 90s, “Study of complexity,” that is further development of the previous series to “Web of Life,“ the most recent development of her art, her ideas have shown consistent development on her own theory. Her work style of continuous build up is different from putting the real world into her frame of thought through generalization and logic. It is rather contemplation on way of specific, phenomenological life that she learned from uncertainty of incomplete, complex reality.