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Kimsooja: Sowing Into Painting, The Wanås Art Foundation, Wanås, Sweden
Kimsooja: Sowing Into Painting, The Wanås Art Foundation, Wanås, Sweden
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The Wanås Foundation presents Sowing Into Painting a multidimensional project including site-specific installations, film, sculpture, and painting. Wana?s Konst is a unique cultural foundation in Southern Sweden, composed of a sculpture park and art galleries on the site of a medieval castle and an organic farm. Kimsooja’s exhibition incorporates the diversity of the location in newly-conceived works investigating the conceptual relationship between painting, agriculture and textiles.
Photo by Mattias Givell
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01 - 03: Kimsooja, Sowing into Painting, 2020. Sowing, Work in progress with two planted varieties of flax seeds (for flax seeds oil and linen) in Wanås Konst open fields. Courtesy of Wanås Konst and Kimsooja Studio. Photo by Mattias Givell
04 - 06: Kimsooja, Sowing into Painting, 2020. Blossoming, Work in progress with two planted varieties of flax seeds (for flax seeds oil and linen) in Wanås Konst open fields. Courtesy of Wanås Konst and Kimsooja Studio. Photo by Elin Magnusson
07 - 09: Kimsooja, Sowing into Painting, 2020. From flower to fruit, Work in progress with two planted varieties of flax seeds (for flax seeds oil and linen) in Wanås Konst open fields. Courtesy of Wanås Konst and Kimsooja Studio. Photo by Martin Lang
10 - 12: Kimsooja, Sowing into Painting, 2020. Seed Capsules and harvesting, Work in progress with two planted varieties of flax seeds (for flax seeds oil and linen) in Wanås Konst open fields. Courtesy of Wanås Konst and Kimsooja Studio. Photo by Martin Lang
13 - 15: Kimsooja, Meta-Painting, 2020. Various linen canvases stretched on wooden frame and bottaris made of linen canvases, used local clothes. Canvases 200 x 324 cm each, bottari dimensions variable. Installation view at Wanås Konst Art Gallery. Courtesy of Wanås Konst and Kimsooja Studio. Photo by Mattias Givell
16 - 17: Kimsooja, A Laundry Field, 2020. Site-specific installation consisting of 100 local Swedish embroidered bedsheets. Installation view at Wanås Konst Sculpture Park, Sweden. Courtesy of Wanås Konst and Kimsooja Studio. Photo by Mattias Givell
18 : Kimsooja, Thread Routes – Chapters I, II, IV, 2010, 2011, 2014. 16mm film transferred to HD Format, 5.1 sound. Installation view at Wanås Konst. Courtesy of Wanås Konst and Kimsooja Studio. Photo by Mattias Givell
19 - 21: Kimsooja, To Breathe, 2020. Site-specific installation with mirror panels and sound performance The Weaving Factory, 2004-2013, 5.1 channel, 9:14, loop. Installation view at Wanås Konst Hay Barn. Courtesy of Wanås Konst and Kimsooja Studio. Photos by Mattias Givell.
22 - 24: Kimsooja, Deductive Objects, 1993-2020. Site-specific installation consisting of fabric filled into the existing holes of the century old hay barn wall. Installation view at Wanås Konst Hay Barn. Courtesy of the Wanås Konst and Kimsooja Studio. Photos by Mattias Givell.
Kimsooja: Planted Names, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Kimsooja: Planted Names, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Installation at Kimsooja, Planted Names, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Courtesy of Axel Vervoordt Gallery and Kimsooja Studio
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Photo by Jan Liegeois
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01 - 04 Planted Names, 2002, Set of 4 Woven Carpets, Unique
05 - 06 Bottari: Alpha Beach, 2001, Single Channel Video, 6:18 loop, Silent
Bottari 2018. Used Korean Bedcovers, Used Clothes from Perth, Australia, Courtesy of Trish Clark Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand and Kimsooja Studio
MMCA Hyundai Motors Series 2016: KIMSOOJA - Archive of Mind, MMCA, Seoul, Korea
MMCA Hyundai Motors Series 2016: KIMSOOJA - Archive of Mind, MMCA, Seoul, Korea
Installation View at Kimsooja - 마음의 기하학 / Archive of Mind, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea(MMCA)
Courtesy of MMCA and Hyundai Motor Co. and Kimsooja Studio
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Photo by Aaron Wax
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01 - 06 마음의 기하학 / Archive of Mind, 2016, Participatory Site-specific Installation Consisting of Assorted Clay Balls, 19m Wooden Table, and sound performance Unfolding Sphere(2016), Dimensions Variable
07 - 08 Deductive Object, 2016, Plaster Casting of Artist's Arms and Antique Wooden Table, 130.8 x 70.5 x 68.6 cm
09 - 10 Deductive Object, 2016, Site-specific Installation Consisting of Painted Welded Steel, Mirror: 10 x 10 m, Sculpture: 2.45 x 1.5(dia)m
11 To Breathe, 2016, Site-specific Installation Consisting of Diffraction Grating Film on Window, Dimensions Variable
12 - 17 Thread Routes – Chapter V, 2016, Single Channel Video, 21:59, 5.1 Sound
18 Geometry of Body, 2006 – 2015, Rubber, Jute, and Natural Cotton - Used Artist's Yogamat, 182.9 x 60.9 cm, Unique
19 One Breath, 2004 / 2016, Digital Embroidery on Satin, abstract from The Weaving Factory(2004) sound performance by the artist, 61.4 x 179.5 x 7 cm, Unique
20 A Study On Body, 1981, Series of 5 Silkscreen Prints, Print: 34 x 34 cm, Paper: 48.1 x 50.5 cm, Frame: 57.1 x 54.4 x 2 cm
Landscape of Beings, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France
Landscape of Beings, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France
Installation view at Landscape of Beings, Le Confort Moderne, For Traversées / Kimsooja, 13 site-specific installations around the city of Poitiers, Poitiers, France
Courtesy of the City of Poitiers, le Confort Moderne, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Galerie Tschudi and Kimsooja Studio
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Photo by Yann Gachet
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01 To Breathe, 2019, Site Specific Installation with Mirrors
02 Encounter: A Mirror Woman, 2019, Site-specific Installation Consisting of Folding Mirror Screen.
03 - 04 Mandala: Zone of Zero, 2004-2010, Single channel mixed media sound installation (One Jukebox, Three Chants Mixed with Tibetan, Gregorian, and Islamic), 9:50, loop, Juke box: 81.28cm(dia), 30.48cm(d)
05 A Needle Woman – Paris, 2009, Performance Video, Single Channel, 25:00 loop, Silent, HD, Commissioned by Nuit Blanche 2009, Paris.
Kimsooja: Wrapping the Void, Sèvres National Manufactory and Museum, Sèvres, France
Kimsooja: Wrapping the Void, Sèvres National Manufactory and Museum, Sèvres, France
9 October - 5 November 2023
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Courtesy of Manufacture de Sèvres – Cité de la Céramique and Kimsooja Studio
Photo by Jaeho Chong
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01 - 03 Deductive Object – Bottari, 2019, A set of 9 pieces of stoneware, terracotta
04 Deductive Object – Bottari, 2019, Bisque porcelain, 45x40cm
05 Deductive Object, 2019, Porcelain, Variable
06 - 09 Deductive Object, 2019, Stoneware, Variable
10 - 12 Sewing into Soil: Invisible Needle, Invisible Thread, Stoneware
Kimsooja, Weaving the World
Kimsooja, Weaving the World
Solo Exhibition at Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Photo by Aaron Wax
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01: Kimsooja, Thread Routes - Chapter IV, 2014, 16mm film transferred to HD Format, 5.1 sound, 27:48. Installation view at Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein. Courtesy of Kimsooja Studio. Photo by Aaron Wax.
02 - 03: Left: Kimsooja, Thread Routes Chapter IV - Lightwaves, 2014/2016, HD Video, 5.1 sound, 27:48, Right: Kimsooja, Thread Routes - Chapter IV, 2014, 16mm film transferred to HD Format, 5.1 sound, 27:48. Installation view at Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein. Courtesy of Kimsooja Studio. Photo by Aaron Wax.
04: Left: Kimsooja, Thread Routes - Chapter I , 2010, 16mm film transfered to HD Format, 5.1 sound, 29:31, Right: Kimsooja, Thread Routes Chapter I - Lightwaves, 2010/2016, HD Video, 5.1 sound, 29:31. Installation view at Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz. Courtesy of Art Basel Unlimited, Basel, Kukje Gallery, Seoul and Kimsooja Studio. Photo by Aaron Wax. Photo by Aaron Wax.
05 - 07: Kimsooja, A Needle Woman, 1999 - 2001, 8 Channel Video Projection, 6:33, silent. Installation view at Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz. Courtesy of Kimsooja Studio. Photo by Aaron Wax.
08 - 10: Kimsooja, Lotus: Zone of Zero, 2017, site-specific installation consisting of 656 lotus lanterns, Tibetan, Gregorian, and Islamic chants. Installation view at Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz. Courtesy of Kimsooja Studio. Photo by Aaron Wax.
11 - 21: Kimsooja, A Laundry Woman, 2000, site specific installation consisting of 27 Korean Bedcovers, 5 bottaris, and 6 fans. Installation view at Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz. Collection of the Musee d’Art Contemporain, Lyon. Courtesy of Musee d’Art Contemporain, Lyon and Kimsooja Studio. Photo by Aaron Wax.
22 - 23: Kimsooja, Encounter - Looking into Sewing, 2017, performative sculpture, used Korean bedcovers, mannequin, 165 x 80 (dia.) cm, unique. Installation view at Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz. Courtesy of Galerie Kewenig, Berlin and Kimsooja Studio. Photo by Aaron Wax.
Kimsooja: To Breathe – Zone of Zero, CAC Málaga, Spain
Kimsooja: To Breathe – Zone of Zero, CAC Málaga, Spain
Installation at Kimsooja: To Breathe – Zone of Zero, CAC Málaga, Málaga, Spain
Courtesy of CAC Málaga and Kimsooja Studio
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photo by José Luis Gutiérrez
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01 - 04 Lotus: Zone of Zero, 2016, Site-specific Installation Consisting of 708 Lotus Lanterns, Tibetan, Gregorian, and Islamic Chants, Steel Structure and Cables, Variable (First exhibited in a different configuration at the Palais Rameau, Lille, 2003, Courtesy Dijon Consortium)
05 - 06 To Breathe – The Flags, 2012, Single Channel Video Animation, 40:41 loop, Silent
Kimsooja: Thread Routes – Chapter III, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Kimsooja: Thread Routes – Chapter III, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Installation View at Kimsooja: Thread Routes, Chapter III, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Courtesy of Axel Vervoordt Gallery and Kimsooja Studio
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01 Thread Routes – Chapter III, 2012, Stills from the Video
02 Thread Routes – Chapter III, 2012, Single Channel Video, 17:35 loop, 5.1 Sound
03 - 10 Thread Routes Chapter III - Deductive Object, 2015, Fabric Installation, Cotton Tablecloth for Block Print and Paint Residue, Dimensions Variable
11 - 13 Thread Routes – Chapter III - Lightwaves, 2010 - 2015, Stills from the Video
Kimsooja: Meta-Painting, Kewenig Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Kimsooja: Meta-Painting, Kewenig Galerie, Berlin, Germany
8 September - 4 November 2023
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Photo by Lepkowski Studios, Berlin
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01 - 03 Meta-Painting, 2020, Linen Canvases Stretched on Wooden Frame and Bottari Made of Linen Canvases, Used Local Clothes, 200 x 324 cm
04 To Breathe – Kewenig, 2023, Site-specific Installation with diffraction grating film, Variable
05 - 07 Deductive Object: (Un)fold, 2023, Korean Rice Paper, 104.5 x 73 x 6 cm
08 - 09 To Breathe – Kewenig, 2023, Site-specific Installation with diffraction grating film, Variable
Kimsooja – Thread Roots, Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden, The Netherlands
Kimsooja – Thread Roots, Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden, The Netherlands
2 March to 21 July 2024
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Curated by Kimsooja, Nicole Roepers, Tanja Elstgeest
Photo by Joep Jacobs
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01 Bottari, 2022, Used Korean bedcovers, clothes, Courtesy Alex Vervoordt Gallery, Kimsooja Studio
02 (Left) Bottari, 2000, Used Korean bedcovers, clothes, Courtesy Alex Vervoordt Gallery, Kimsooja Studio
(Right) Encounter – Looking into Sewing, 1998/2013, Digital Flex Print Sandwich Mounted, Courtesy of KEWENIG Berlin, Kimsooja Studio
03 (Left) Deductive Objects – Bottari Cart, 2007, 19th C. Baguette Cart from France, Bottaris, Bungee Cords, Courtesy of Kimsooja Studio
(Right) Cities on the Move – 2727km Bottari Truck, 1997/2001, Duraclear Photographic Print in Light Box, Courtesy Amira en Tom Moeskops, Axel Vervoordt Gallery
04, 05, 06 Meta Painting – Fabric Samples, 2024, Textile Samples on Handmade Cotton Paper, Courtesy of Kimsooja Studio
07 Thread Routes – Chapter IV, 2014, Single Channel Video, 5.1 sound, 16mm film transferred to HD, 27:48 loop, Sound. Courtesy of Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Kimsooja Studio
Thread Routes – Chapter VI, 2019, Single Channel Video, 5.1 sound, 16mm film transferred to HD, 28:18 loop, Sound. Courtesy of Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Kimsooja Studio
08 Meta-Painting, 2020, Linen Canvases Stretched on Wooden Frame and Bottaris Made of Linen Canvases, Used Local Clothes. Courtesy Wanås Konst, Kimsooja Studio, KEWENIG Berlin
Kimsooja: Geometry of Breath, Gallery Kewenig, Berlin, Germany
Kimsooja: Geometry of Breath, Gallery Kewenig, Berlin, Germany
Solo Exhibition at Kimsooja - Geometry of Breath, Gallery Kewenig, Berlin, Germany
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Photo by Stefan Müller
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01 Deductive Object, 2016, antique wooden box and 8 clay balls, 23.5 x 36.2 x 10.16 cm
02 Deductive Object, 2016, antique wooden box and 9 clay balls, 20.32 x 28.58 x 6.99 cm
03 Deductive Object, 2016, antique wooden box and 40 clay balls, 40.64 x 23.5 x 13.97 cm
04 (Left) Deductive Object, 2016, antique wooden box and 40 clay balls, 40.64 x 23.5 x 13.97 cm
(Right Back) Deductive Object, 2016, antique wooden box and 8 clay balls, 23.5 x 36.2 x 10.16 cm
(Right Front) Deductive Object, 2016, antique wooden box and 9 clay balls, 20.32 x 28.58 x 6.99 cm
05 - 06 Bottari, 2017, Black Bedcover and Used Clothing, 48 x 57(dia) cm
07 Bottari, 2017, White Bedcover and Used Clothing from Michael Kewenig, 48 x 57(dia) cm
08 A Laundry Woman, 2017, Site-specific Installation Consisting of Used artist's clothing, Clothesline, Clothespins, and Black Bottari
09 (Left) Geometry of Body (Left Thumb), 2015, Giclée Inkjet Print, 170.5 x 114.1 cm
(Center) A Laundry Woman, 2017, Site-specific Installation Consisting of Used artist's clothing, Clothesline, Clothespins, and Black Bottari
(Right) Topology of Time, 2016, Giclée Inkjet Print, 170.5 x 114.1 cm
10 Deductive Object, 2016, Plaster Casting of Artist's Arms and Antique Wooden Table, 130.81 x 62.87 x 68.58 cm
11 Geometry of Body, 2006 - 2015, Rubber, Jute, and Natural Cotton - Used Artist's Yogamat, 182.88 x 60.96 cm
12 One Breathe, 2004 / 2016, Digital Embroidery on Stretched Silk, Abstract from The Weaving Factory(2004) Sound Performance by the Artist, 61.4 x 179.5 x 7 cm
13 An Album Havana, 2007, Single Channel Video, 6:57 loop, Silent
14 An Album: Hudson Guild, 2009, Single Channel Video, 31:40 loop, 5.1 Sound, Commissioned by More Art, New York
15 (Left) An Album: Hudson Guild, 2009 / 2017, Digital Flex Print, 101.6 x 152.4 cm
(Right) An Album: Hudson Guild, 2009, Single Channel Video, 31:40 loop, 5.1 Sound, Commissioned by More Art, New York
16 (Back) Bottari Truck – Migrateurs, 2007, Single Channel Video, 9:17 loop, Silent, Performed in Paris, Commissioned by Musée D'Art Contemporain du Val-De-Marne (MAC/VAL)
(Front) Bottari Truck – Migrateurs, 2008, 2.5 ton truck from France (1976 Peugeot 404 Pickup), Bottaris, Bungee Cords, Performed in Paris, Commissioned by Musée d'art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, France
17 (Back) Cities on the Move – 11633 Mile Bottari Truck, 1998 / 2001, Duraclear Photographic Print in Light Box, 188.5 x 128 x 25.5 cm,
(Front) Deductive Objects – Bottari Cart, 2007, 19th C. Baguette Cart from France, Bottaris, Bungee Cords, (Bottari cart) 6 Bottaris - Used Bed Clothes and Bungee Cords, 106(h) x 100 x 63cm, (Bottari cart) 8 bottaris - Used Bed Clothes and Bungee Cords, 100(h) x 100 x 65 cm, (Sigle Bottari) Used Cloth, Wrapping Cloth, 30 x 65 cm
18 To Breathe: Mandala, 2010, Single Jukebox with the Artist’s Voice Performance “The Weaving Factory”(2004), 9:14 loop, Juke box: 81.28cm(dia), 30.48cm(d)
Kimsooja - Gazing into Sphere, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Wijnegem, Belgium
Kimsooja - Gazing into Sphere, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Wijnegem, Belgium
Solo Exhibition at Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Wijnegem, Belgium
Photo by Sebastian Schutyser
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01: Kimsooja, Gazing into Sphere, 2018, Site-specific installation in the Escher Gallery at Axel Vervoordt, Wijnegem. Courtesy of Culture City of East Asia 2017, Kyoto, Axel Vervoordt, Wijnegem, and Kimsooja Studio. Photo by Sebastian Schutyser
02 - 03: Kimsooja, Encounter - A Mirror Woman, 2017, Folding mirror screen. Installation view in the Escher Gallery at Axel Vervoordt, Wijnegem. Courtesy of Culture City of East Asia 2017, Kyoto, Axel Vervoordt, Wijnegem, and Kimsooja Studio. Photo by Sebastian Schutyser
04 - 06: Kimsooja, Gazing into Sphere, 2018, Site-specific installation in the Escher Gallery at Axel Vervoordt, Belgium. Courtesy of Culture City of East Asia 2017, Kyoto, Axel Vervoordt, Wijnegem, and Kimsooja Studio. Photo by Sebastian Schutyser
07: Kimsooja, Fuego de Tierra / Fire of Earth, 2009, 9:37 loop, silent. Installation view in the Escher Gallery at Axel Vervoordt, Wijnegem. Courtesy of MMCA, Seoul, Korea and Kimsooja Studio.
The XIV Cordoba Photography Biennale, Sala Olive, Cordoba, Spain
The XIV Cordoba Photography Biennale, Sala Olive, Cordoba, Spain
Installation at The XIV Cordoba Photography Biennale: Kimsooja: Earth - Water - Fire - Air, Sala Olive, Cordoba, Spain
Commissioned by Lanzerote Biennale and Hermes Foundation, Paris, Courtesy of La Fabrica, Madrid and Kimsooja Studio
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01 Aire de Tierra / Air of Earth, 2009, 6:25 loop, Sound, Fuego de Aire / Fire of Air, 2009, 08:00 loop, Silent, Tierra de Agua / Earth of Water, 2009, 06:57 loop, Silent
02 Aire de Fuego / Air of Fire, 2009, 3:47 loop, Sound, Agua de Tierra / Water of Earth, 2009, 05:42 loop, Silent, Fuego de Tierra / Fire of Earth, 2009, 09:22 loop, Silent
BienalSUR, Buenos Aires, Argentina
BienalSUR, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Based in Seoul, Paris and New York, international conceptual artist Kimsooja (b. 1957) has for the past four decades oriented her practice in alignment with the totality of art and life. Kimsooja participates in BIENAL SUR 2021, an artistic endeavor that seeks to break down cultural barriers and connect the world in the pandemic era, through an exhibition titled KIMSOOJA BUENOS AIRES. Chapter 1: Kimsooja. The Encounter with the Other (2021.09.10-12.23), KIMSOOJA BUENOS AIRES. Chapter 2: Kimsooja. Nomad (2021.09.15-11.21) and Chapter 3 at Korean Cultural Center (CCC). This solo presentation comprises 26 works of video and film, including A Needle Woman, as well as large-scale installations, objects and photographs displayed from September 2 to December 15 in major museums and theaters across Buenos Aires as well as the Korean Cultural Center. The third edition of BIENAL SUR proposes a culturally open topography of art that respects the diversity of different cultures and addresses ecological awareness, ways of living, art politics and issues of transit and migration. Such themes resonate with Kimsooja’s longstanding artistic contemplation of the world’s order, cycles and borders and reflects her efforts to transcend various media with a consistent emphasis on compassion and humanity.
Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina and host city of BIENAL SUR, is a multicultural metropolis that has embraced immigrant populations from Europe, Africa and Asia throughout significant historical incidents including Spanish colonization, World Wars I and II and the Algerian War. Kimsooja installs several works around the city’s harbor, a place where immigrants to Buenos Aires first came ashore, revealing a new symbolic significance as they transpose the meaning of migration from the artist’s personal realm into one of universal empathy. Bottari Truck – Migrateures (2008) symbolically portrays the journey of an immigrant in Paris by wrapping and unwrapping a bottari (bundle) before departing; the concept of movement associated with bottari is visualized in the form of a container in recent works Bottari: 1999-2019 and its extended five-color (Obangsaek) container Bottari:2021; and a documentary film series, Thread Routes (2010-2019), poetically considers the universality of human culture as it merges natural landscapes with traditional textile cultures around the world. Kimsooja’s works actively engage with spaces that symbolize the city’s diversity and history of immigration, opening new possibilities for individuals of different backgrounds to coexist.
The National University of Tres de Febero’s Museum of Immigration (MUNTREF), which was built to commemorate the arrivals of immigrants from Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America in the late 19th century, features Bottari:2021 on its façade, while A Needle Woman (2005) appears inside. Archive of Mind, a participatory installation of dry clay balls set on a large elliptical table, invites audiences to join in a contemplative communal performance by holding the clay balls in their hands and rolling them across the table while listening to the sound of Kimsooja's murmuring voice in Unfolding Spheres (2016). As both discrete individuals and a collective community, the audience shares the materiality of the clay as well as the inner aesthetic journey of clearing one’s mind. The group of uniquely shaped clay balls are produced as the axes of encounters among numerous sets of intersecting hands and signify the meetings of all beings scattered throughout the cosmos, who coexist through connected relations. In To Breathe (2021), installed at the crosswalk that traverses the museum building from east and to west, one can metaphorically yet viscerally experience the artist’s dematerialized artworld of “non-doing, non-making” light painting, where visitors’ breath and refractions of light are transformed through diffraction grating film that illuminates the space with a rainbow light spectrum.
New works presented at MUNTREF are also noteworthy, including new iterations of the artist’s representative bottari, which represent the movements and border crossings that envelop the world’s diversity, as well as To Breathe: the flags(2012), whereby local residents’ old clothes are wrapped in colorful fabrics of Obangsaek tones that are commonly found in everyday Argentine life and made into minimal bottari, thus connecting with and embracing multiple social contexts. Thread Routes (2010-2019) further conveys Kimsooja's perspective toward the links that connect global textile cultures, architecture, nature and handcrafts, allowing viewers to experience the visual connections between dyeing, embroidery, weaving, lacework, tile and pottery practices.
The artist's Deductive Object series installed at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes suggests a new aesthetics of the readymade by loading carts with bottari made out of laundry bags, supplemented by A Needle Woman [Paris, 2009] and lightbox photos of the bottari series. Installed in the mirror room of the Museo Nacional de Arte Decorativo is To Breathe, a large mirror installation on the floor is paired with sound from The Weaving Factory (2004); the Korean Cultural Center presents Deductive Object, an Obangsaek carpet work, and Mandala: Zone of Zero; and the historical Margarita Xirgu Theatre screens To Breathe - Invisible Mirror, Invisible Needle (2005). By encountering Kimsooja’s works at culturally significant locations throughout Buenos Aires, audiences are encouraged to reflect on issues of migration and transit in the age of globalization, thereby constructing a visual platform of harmony and solidarity. This project marks the artist’s first large-scale exhibition in Latin America since 1997, when she participated in the Bienal de São Paulo with Cities on the Move - 11163 miles Bottari Truck.
New York apartment, installation view at MUNTREF, Buenoes Aires, Argentina
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01 : Kimsooja, Bottari: 1999-2019, 2021, Site-specific installation consisting of shipping container painted the colors of obangsaek, containing all of the artist's personal possessions from her New York apartment, installation view at MUNTREF, Buenoes Aires, Argentina, Courtesy of the Bienal SUR 2021 and Kimsooja Studio
Documenta 14: ANTIDORON, Fridericianum, Kassel
Documenta 14: ANTIDORON, Fridericianum, Kassel
Installation at Documenta 14: ANTIDORON - The EMST Collection, Documenta 14, Fridericianum, Kassel
First exhibited in 2005, Kimsooja, Journey into the World, EMST, Athens, Greece
Courtesy of Documenta 14, Athens, Kewenig Gallery, Berlin, EMST Collection, Athens and Kimsooja Studio
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Photo by Jasper Kettner
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01 - 03 Bottari, 2005, Used Korean Bedcovers, Used Clothes from Athens
04 - 05 Bottari, 2017, Used Korean Bedcovers, Used Clothes from Kassel