| Sora Kim_Atelier Hermes |
Oct 13 2010 |
Venue:
Atelier Hermes,
630-26 Shinsa-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul
Tel: +82-2-544-7722
Email: atelierhermes@hermes.com
Website: www.fondationdentreprisehermes.com
When: 2/10/2010 - 5/12/2010
Where: Atelier Hermes
Country: Korea
Artists: Sora Kim
Since the mid-90s, Sora Kim has drawn attention from the international art scene through her remarkable works. Her new works presented at Atelier Hermés could be a turning point in her artistic career. Such direction or character of this solo exhibition is well brought out, paradoxically, in its absence of title. To sum up her works from the 90s up to now in short, Kim has invented a concept and activated it through a specific operating system and its sub-programs. She made use of familiar social codes–like a janitorial service company, a bank, a travel agency, a market, and a laboratory–to create an imaginative apparatus through which a silent infiltration into everyday life was attempted. It was in these virtual companies that an alternative system parallel to social reality was operated and that her works were germinated. However in this show, Kim resolutely throws out the position of producer or director. Without the intention to control or lead everything on the whole, she chooses to be within the same level as the audience, not to make an order but to trigger a situation where unexpected orders may reveal themselves.
The absence of the exhibition title exemplifies the direction-less condition; the variously conducted free movements and exchanges, unknown emergence of orders and their co-existence. Now she is stepping into the unknown territory, which is so strange even to the artist herself that she is not sure how to call it. In this titleless exhibition, she proposes 15 pieces of essays to convey her own personal ideas, situations, sensations, feelings, and encounters. These are crossed over and mixed in the same dimension to conjure up a possibility to create another stories. Numbers, unidentified sounds, a buoy, constructions made of bricks, a cement radio, light bulbs, plates, a broken wall, and four videos—all of these elements search for a point where the incommunicable elements and incompatible relations can exist together without mutual violation. This possibility cannot be derived from a realistic reflection of or a specific engagement in reality; it emerges only when heterogeneous fragments expelled from this world are symbolized and reciprocally reference to each other so as to construct another world.
