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Thread Routes – Chapter VI
Thread Routes – Chapter VI
Single Channel Video, 28:18, 5.1 Sound
Commissionned by the City of Poitiers
To Breathe
To Breathe
Site-specific Installation with Mirrors Panels and Diffraction Grating Films, and Sound Performance The Weaving Factory(2004-2013)
Courtesy of Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, and Kimsooja Studio
01 Photo by Mark Reeves
02 - 04 Photo by Jan Liegeois
Installation at Kimsooja: To Breathe, Yorkshire Sculpture Park and Chapel, Wakefield, UK
Archive of Mind
Archive of Mind
Site-specific Participatory Consisting of Clay balls, Elliptical Wooden Table, and Sound Performance Unfolding Sphere(2016)
Courtesy of Kimsooja Studio
1 - 2 Photo by Bob Packert
3 - 6 Photo by Ken Sawyer
Installation at Kimsooja: Archive of Mind, Peabody Essex Museum(PEM), Salem, USA
Traversées / Kimsooja, Poitiers, France
Traversées / Kimsooja, Poitiers, France
Kimsooja presents 13 site-specific installations around the city of Poitiers, Poitiers, France for the inaugural Traversées biennale
For more information, click HERE
Photo by Jan Liegeois
(Left to right:)
01 - 02: Kimsooja, To Breathe - Tour Maubergeon , 2019, site-specific installation with mirror panels. Installation view at Tour Maubergeon, 2019. Courtesy of the City of Poitiers and Kimsooja Studio. Photos by Jan Liegois.
03 - 04: Kimsooja, Archive of Mind , 2019, participatory site-specific installation consisting of clay balls, 18m elliptical wooden table, and sound performance Unfolding Sphere, 2016. Installation view at Palais des ducs d'Aquitane, 2019. Courtesy of the City of Poitiers, Axel Vervoordt Gallery and Kimsooja Studio. Photos by Jan Liegois.
05 - 06: Kimsooja, To Breathe - La Canopée , 2019, site-specific installation consisting of diffraction-grating film. Installation view at La Canopée, 2019. Courtesy of the City of Poitiers and Kimsooja Studio. Photos by Yann Gachet.
07 - 08: Kimsooja, Bottari Truck , 2007, site-specific installation consisting of 1976 Peugeot 404 pickup truck, bottaris. Installation view at Chapelle Saint Louis, 2019. Courtesy of the City of Poitiers and Kimsooja Studio. Photos by Jan Liegeois (07) and Yann Gachet (08).
09 - 10: Kimsooja, Planted Names , 2002, site-specific installation consisting of carpets woven with the names of people enslaved at Drayton Hall Plantation. Installation view at Chapelle Saint Louis, 2019. Courtesy of the City of Poitiers and Kimsooja Studio. Photos by Yann Gachet.
11 - 12: Kimsooja, To Breathe - The Flags , 2019, site-specific installation consisting of mixed nationality flags. Installation view at Rue de Cathédrale, 2019. Courtesy of the City of Poitiers, Raffaella Cortese Gallery and Kimsooja Studio. Photos by Yann Gachet.
13 - 15: Kimsooja, Encounter, A Mirror Woman, 2017, site-specific installation consisting of folding mirror screen. Installation view at Confort Moderne, 2019. Courtesy of the City of Poitiers, le Confort Moderne, Axel Vervoordt Gallery Kimsooja Studio. Photos by Jan Liegeois.
16 - 18: Kimsooja, Bottari: 1999-2019 , 2019, site-specific installation consisting of shipping container painted the colors of obangsaek, containing all of the artist's personal posessions from her New York apartment. Installation view at Cathédrale Saint-Pierre, 2019. Courtesy of the City of Poitiers and Kimsooja Studio. Photos by Yann Gachet (16) and Sebastien Laval.
19: Kimsooja, Thread Routes Chapter I, II, II, 2010-2012, 16mm film transferred to HD Format, 5.1 sound. Installation view at Musée Sainte-Croix, 2019. Courtesy of the City of Poitiers, the Musée Sainte-Croix and Kimsooja Studio. Photos by Yann Gachet.
20 - 21: Kimsooja, production stills from Thread Routes Chapter VI , 2019, 16mm film transferred to HD Format, 5.1 sound, 28:20. Commission of the City of Poitiers. Courtesy of the City of Poitiers and and Kimsooja Studio. Photos by Thierry Depagne.
22 - 24: Kimsooja, Solarescope , 2019, site-specific lighting installation at Notre-Dame La Grande, Poitiers. Courtesy of the City of Poitiers and Kimsooja Studio. Photos by Yann Gachet
25: Kimsooja, Bottari , 2017. Installation view at La Canopée, 2019. Courtesy of the Kewenig Gallery, City of Poitiers and Kimsooja Studio.
26: Kimsooja, To Breathe , 2019, site-specific installation consisting of diffraction-grating film. Installation view at Sainte - Radegonde Church, 2019. Courtesy of the City of Poitiers and Kimsooja Studio. Photo by Yann Gachet.
27: Kimsooja, Mumbai : A Laundry Field , 2007. Installation view at the Maison de l'Architecture, 2019. Courtesy of Kewenig Gallery, the City of Poitiers and Kimsooja Studio. Photo by Yann Gachet.
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
For more information, click HERE
Photo by Yann Gachet
(Left to right:)
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, Performed and filmed in Paris, 2009, Single Channel Video, 25:00 loop, Silent, Commissioned by Nuit Blanche 2009, Paris.
Solarescope
Solarescope
Site-specific Lighting Installation
Courtesy of the City of Poitiers and Kimsooja Studio
Photos by Yann Gachet
Installation view at Notre-Dame La Grande, For Traversées / Kimsooja, 13 site-specific installations around the city of Poitiers, Poitiers, France
To Breathe – The Flags
To Breathe – The Flags
Site-specific Installation consistingof 12 nylon flags
Courtesy of the City of Poitiers and Kimsooja Studio
Photos by Yann Gachet
Installation view at Rue de la cathédrale, For Traversées / Kimsooja, 13 site-specific installations around the city of Poitiers, Poitiers, France
To Breathe
To Breathe
Site-specific Installation with Diffraction Grating Films
Dimensions Variable
Photos by Yann Gachet
Installation view at Cloître des Augustins, For Traversées / Kimsooja, 13 site-specific installations around the city of Poitiers, Poitiers, France
To Breathe – Tour Maubergeon
To Breathe – Tour Maubergeon
Site-specific Installation with Mirror Panels
Dimensions Variable
Courtesy of the City of Poitiers and Kimsooja Studio
Photos by Jan Liegois
Installation view at Tour Maubergeon, For Traversées / Kimsooja, 13 site-specific installations around the city of Poitiers, Poitiers, France
Lotus: Zone of Zero
Lotus: Zone of Zero
Site-specific Installation Consisting of 272 Lotus Lanterns, Tibetan, Gregorian, and Islamic Chants, Steel Structure and Cables
Dimensions Variable
Photos by David De Armas
Installation at Group Exhibition Clapping with Stones: Art and Acts of Resistance The Rubin Museum of Art, New York, USA
First exhibited in a different configuration at the Palais Rameau, Lille, 2003, Courtesy Dijon Consortium
Archive of Mind, 2016/2019
Archive of Mind, 2016/2019
Participatory Site-specific Installation Consisting of Clay Balls, 18m elliptical wooden table, and sound performance Unfolding Sphere(2016)
Courtesy of the City of Poitiers, Axel Vervoordt Gallery and Kimsooja Studio
Photos by Jan Liegois
Installation view at Palais des ducs d'Aquitaine, For Traversées / Kimsooja, 13 site-specific installations around the city of Poitiers, Poitiers, France
Bottari Truck – Migrateurs, 2007/2019
Bottari Truck – Migrateurs, 2007/2019
Site-specific Installation Consisting of 1 ton truck from France (1976 Peugeot 404 Pickup), Bottaris, Bungee Cords
Courtesy of the City of Poitiers and Kimsooja Studio.
01 Photos by Jan Liegeois
02 - 03 Photos by Yann Gachet
Installation view at Chapelle Saint Louis, For Traversées / Kimsooja, 13 site-specific installations around the city of Poitiers, Poitiers, France
Planted Names, 2002/2019
Planted Names, 2002/2019
Site-specific Installation Consisting of Carpets Woven with the Names of People Enslaved at Drayton Hall Plantation
Courtesy of the City of Poitiers and Kimsooja Studio
Photos by Yann Gachet
Installation view at Chapelle Saint Louis, For Traversées / Kimsooja, 13 site-specific installations around the city of Poitiers, Poitiers, France
Bottari 1999-2019
Bottari 1999-2019
Site-specific Installation Consisting of Shipping Container Painted the Colors of Obangsaek, Containing all of the Artist's Personal Posessions from her New York apartment.
Courtesy of the City of Poitiers and Kimsooja Studio
Photos by Yann Gachet and Sebastien Laval.
Installation view at Place de la Cathédrale Saint-Pierre, For Traversées / Kimsooja, 13 site-specific installations around the city of Poitiers, Poitiers, France