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Bottari Truck

Bottari Truck

2.5 ton truck from South Korea, Bottaris, Bungee Cords

2000

Installation at Kimsooja, A Needle Woman - A Woman Who Weaves the World, Rodin Gallery (Plateau Samsung Museum of Art), Seoul, Korea

Bottari

Bottari

Used Korean Bedcovers and Clothing
Dimensions Variable

2000

Photo by Pierre Laborde

Installation at Sharing Exotism, The 5th Biennale de Lyon 2000, Halle Tony Garnier, Lyon, France

A Laundry Woman

A Laundry Woman

Used Korean Bedcovers and Used Clothing
Dimensions Variable
Courtesy of Kimsooja Studio

1999

Installation at The 3rd Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art: Beyond the Future, Brisbane, Australia

A Needle Woman – Kitakyushu

A Needle Woman – Kitakyushu

Performance Video
Single Channel, 6:33 loop, Silent
Edition of 4 plus 2 artist's proofs

1999

d'Apertutto, or Bottari Truck in Exile

d'Apertutto, or Bottari Truck in Exile

2.5 ton truck from South Korea, Bottaris, Bungee Cords

1999

Installation at The 48th Venice Biennale: dAPERTutto, Venice, Italy

Encounter – Looking into Sewing

Encounter – Looking into Sewing

Performative Sculpture
Used Korean Bedcovers, Mannequin

1998

Installation at Echolot, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany, Group Exhibition

Cities In The Move – 11633 Miles of Bottari Truck

Cities In The Move – 11633 Miles of Bottari Truck

2 ton truck from South Korea, Bottaris, Bungee Cords

1998

Installation at The 24th Sao Paulo Biennale: Cultural Anthropophagy, São Paulo, Brazil

Deep Breathing

Deep Breathing

Single Channel Video
3:10 loop, Silent
Edition of 6 plus 1 artist's proof

1998

Sewing into Walking – Istiklal Cadessi (Turkey)

Sewing into Walking – Istiklal Cadessi (Turkey)

2 Channel Video
17:11 loop, Stereo Sound(Street Sound, Tibetan Monk Chant)
Istanbul, Turkey
Edition of 4 plus 2 artist's proofs

1997

Deductive Object – Dedicated to My Marriage

Deductive Object – Dedicated to My Marriage

Fragments of Fabric from Used Clothes and Bedcovers

1997

Installation at The 5th International Istanbul Biennale: On life, beauty, translations and other difficulties, Istanbul, Turkey

Cities on the Move – 2727 Kilometers Bottari Truck

Cities on the Move – 2727 Kilometers Bottari Truck

Performance Video
Single Channel, 7:33 loop, Silent
Edition of 2 plus 1 artist's proof

1997

A Laundry Field

A Laundry Field

Used Korean Bedcovers
Variable

1997

Installation at Kimsooja, A Laundry Field — Sewing into Walking. Looking into Sewing, Oakville Galleries, Ontario, Canada

Deductive Object

Deductive Object

Used Korean Bedcovers, Used Clothing
Dimensions Variable

1997

Installation at Kimsooja, Deductive Object, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya, Japan, Solo Exhibition

Deductive Object

Deductive Object

Used Korean Bedcovers
Dimensions Variable

1997

Installation at Setagaya Art Museum Group Exhibition

Deductive Object

Deductive Object

Used Korean Bedcovers, Used Clothing
Dimensions Variable

1996

Installation at The Scream - Borealis 8, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark, Group Exhibition

Deductive Object

Deductive Object

Used Korean Bedcovers and Used Clothing
Dimensions Variable

1996

Deductive Object

Deductive Object

Used Korean Bedcovers, Korean Food, Korean Music
Dimensions Variable

1996

Deductive Object – Dedicated to My Neighbors

Deductive Object – Dedicated to My Neighbors

Used Korean Bedcovers, Used Clothes
Dimensions Variable

1995

Installation at Group exhibition Circulating Currents: Japanese and Korean Contemporary Art, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan

Deductive Object

Deductive Object

Used Korean Bedcovers and Used clothes
Dimensions Variable
Courtesy of The Korean Culture and Arts Foundation, Seoul and Kimsooja Studio

1995

Installation at The Korean Culture and Arts Foundation, Seoul, Korea

Deductive Object

Deductive Object

Used Korean Bedcovers
Dimensions Variable

1995

Installation at Fruitmarket Gallery Group Exhibition

Sewing Into Walking – Dedicated to the Victims of Gwangju

Sewing Into Walking – Dedicated to the Victims of Gwangju

Used Korean Bedcovers, Used Clothes, Speakers
Dimensions Variable

1995

Bottari – Deductive Object

Bottari – Deductive Object

Iris Print
50.8 x 63.5cm
38.1 x 50.8cm

1995

Photo by Joo Myung Duck

Performance in 1995, Yongyou Island, Incheon, Korea

Deductive Object

Deductive Object

Used Korean Bedcovers, Used Clothes
Dimensions Variable

1994

Bottaris

Bottaris

Performance in 1994, Yangdong Village, Kyungju, Korea

1994

Photo by Joo Myung Duck

Sewing Into Walking

Sewing Into Walking

Video Installation
20 Monitors, Surveyor Camera, 16 Bottaris, Used Clothes, Sound

1994

Sewing into Walking – Kyungju

Sewing into Walking – Kyungju

Performance Video
Single Channel, 19:40 loop, Silent
Edition of 2 plus 1 artist's proof

1994

Deductive Object

Deductive Object

Used Korean Bedcovers, Used Clothes
65 x 62 x 75cm

1993

Deductive Object

Deductive Object

Used Clothing Fabric, New York City Telephone Directories (White and Yellow Pages) from 1993
25.4 x 25.4 x 30.48cm

1993

Deductive Object

Deductive Object

Used Korean Bedcover
183 x 149cm

1993

Deductive Object

Deductive Object

Used Cloth, Copper Line, Paint Palette
28 x 45 x 36cm

1993
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