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The Sun – Unfolded (Set of 6 prints)

The Sun – Unfolded (Set of 6 prints)

Set of 6 Giclée Inklet Prints
each 114.3 x 96.5cm

2008

Installation, Solo Exihibition at Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo

To Breathe – A Mirror Woman 2006/2008

To Breathe – A Mirror Woman 2006/2008

Duraclear Photographic Print in Lightbox
Large: 185 x 138 cm
Small: 89 x 119 cm
Edition of 6 plus 1 artist's proof

2008

Site-Specific Installation at The Crystal Palace, Madrid, Spain, 2006

Mumbai: A Laundry Field, 2008 (Series of 30 Prints)

Mumbai: A Laundry Field, 2008 (Series of 30 Prints)

C-Print
each 88.9 x 72.1 cm
Edition of 8 plus 2 artist's proofs

2008

Mumbai: A Laundry Field (Series of 18 Prints)

Mumbai: A Laundry Field (Series of 18 Prints)

C-Print
each 44.5 x 60.8 cm
Edition of 8 plus 2 artist's proofs

2007

An Album: Havana (Set of 4 Prints)

An Album: Havana (Set of 4 Prints)

Giclée Inkjet Prints
each 55.9 x 78.7 cm
Edition of 6 plus 1 artist's proof

2007

To Breathe – Invisible Mirror / Invisible Needle, (Set of 8 Prints)

To Breathe – Invisible Mirror / Invisible Needle, (Set of 8 Prints)

Digital Flex Print
each 67.6 x 101.6 cm
Edition of 8 plus 2 artist's proofs

2007

A Needle Woman – Kitakyushu, 1999/2007

A Needle Woman – Kitakyushu, 1999/2007

Giclée Inkjet Print
62.2 x 86.4 cm

2007

Performance in 1999, Kitakyushu, Japan, Video Still Image from A Needle Woman – Kitakyushu

A Laundry Woman – Yamuna River, India, 2000/2007

A Laundry Woman – Yamuna River, India, 2000/2007

Giclée Inkjet Print
61.6 x 86.4 cm
Edition of 25 plus 4 artist's proofs

2007

Performance in 2000, Video Still Image from A Laundry Woman – Yamuna River

Cities on the Move – 2727km Bottari Truck, 1997/2007

Cities on the Move – 2727km Bottari Truck, 1997/2007

Giclée Inkjet Print
62.2 x 86.4 cm
Edition of 25 plus 4 artist's proofs

2007

Performance in 1997, Video Still Image from Cities on the Move - 2727km Bottari Truck

Sewing Into Walking – Kyungju, 1994/2007

Sewing Into Walking – Kyungju, 1994/2007

Giclée Inkjet Print
62.2 x 86.4 cm
Edition of 25 plus 4 artist's proofs

2007

Performance in 1994, Video Still Image from Sewing Into Walking - Kyungju

Flag

Flag

Inkjet Print
Large: 106 x 54.6 cm
Small: 50.8 x 25.7 cm
Edition of 30 plus 6 artist's proofs

2006

To Breathe – Invisible Mirror / Invisible Needle (Set of 5 Prints)

To Breathe – Invisible Mirror / Invisible Needle (Set of 5 Prints)

Digital Flex Print
67.6 x 101.6 cm
Edition of 8 plus 2 artist's proofs

2006

A Wind Woman, 2003-2006 (Series of 285 Prints)

A Wind Woman, 2003-2006 (Series of 285 Prints)

Iris Print
each 88.9 x 119.4 cm
Unique

2006

Seven Wishes (Set of 7 Prints)

Seven Wishes (Set of 7 Prints)

Iris Print on Somerset Velvet Archival Paper
each 114.1 x 80.5cm
Edition of 20 plus 5 artist's proofs

2004

Epitaph

Epitaph

Digital C-Print
116.8 x 152.4cm
Edition of 6 plus 4 artist's proofs

2002

Encounter – Looking Into Sewing, 1998/2002

Encounter – Looking Into Sewing, 1998/2002

Vibacrome Print
212.1 x 126 cm
Edition of 5 plus 2 artist's proofs

2002

Photo by Lee Jong Soo

Performative Sculpture in 1988

Deductive Object 2 – Dedicated To My Marriage, 1997/2002

Deductive Object 2 – Dedicated To My Marriage, 1997/2002

C-Print
34.9 x 57.4 cm
Edition of 6 plus 2 artist's proofs

2002

Installation View at The 5th International Istanbul Biennale: On life, beauty, translations and other difficulties, Istanbul, Turkey, 1997

Deductive Object 1 – Dedicated To My Marriage, 1997/2002

Deductive Object 1 – Dedicated To My Marriage, 1997/2002

C-Print
45.7 x 68.6 cm
Edition of 6 plus 2 artist's proofs

2002

Installation View at The 5th International Istanbul Biennale: On life, beauty, translations and other difficulties, Istanbul, Turkey, 1977

Cities on the Move – 11633 Miles of Bottari Truck, 1998/2001

Cities on the Move – 11633 Miles of Bottari Truck, 1998/2001

Duraclear Photographic Print in Lightbox
Large: 128 x 188.5 x 25.5cm
Small: 65 x 95.5 x 20.5cm
Edition of 5 plus 2 artist's proofs

2001

Installation view(Bottaris closeup), Sao Paolo Biennale 1998

Cities on the Move – 2727km Bottari Truck, 1997/2001

Cities on the Move – 2727km Bottari Truck, 1997/2001

Duraclear Photographic Print in Lightbox
Large: 128 x 188.5 x 25.5cm
Small: 65 x 95.5 x 20.5cm
Edition of 5 plus 2 artist's proofs

2001

Performance in 1997, Production Still (Bottari in the Street) from Cities on the Move - 2727km Bottari Truck

Cities on the Move – 2727km Bottari Truck, 1997/2001

Cities on the Move – 2727km Bottari Truck, 1997/2001

Duraclear Photographic Print in Light Box
Large edition: 188.5cm x 128 x 25.5cm
Small edition: 95.5cm x 65 x 20.5cm
Edition of 5 plus 2 artist's proofs

2001

Performance in 1997, Production Still Image (Artist Facing Mountain) from Cities on the Move - 2727km Bottari Truck

Bottaris, 1994/2001

Bottaris, 1994/2001

Duraclear Photographic Print in Light Box
Large edition: 128 x 188.5cm x 25.5cm
Small edition: 65 x 95.5cm x 20.5cm
Edition of 5 plus 2 artist's proofs

2001

Photo by Joo Myung Duck

Performance in 1994, Yangdong Village, Kyungju, Korea

A Homeless Woman – Delhi

A Homeless Woman – Delhi

C-Print
90.5 x 134 cm
Edition of 8 plus 4 artist's proofs

2000

Performance in 2000, Delhi, India

A Needle Woman – Kitakyushu, 1999/2000

A Needle Woman – Kitakyushu, 1999/2000

A Needle Woman – Kitakyushu
C-Print
90.5 x 134 cm
Edition of 8 plus 4 artist's proofs

This portrait of the artist was taken during her performance in Kitakyushu, Japan. Kimsooja’s body follows the curvature of the rock, becoming a line that connects and divides the earth and the sky. By lying faced away on the edge of nature, she places her horizontal body against the viewers’ standing behind. Kimsooja considers her body as an axis through which movement and stillness, self and others, horizontality and verticality are measured. It is a symbolic cross, or a crossing of dualistic realities. This performance also takes place in nature in relation to her first performance, A Needle Woman (1999), presented in the Studio, where she stands still against waves of crowds in different cities.


이 작품은 김수자가 일본 기타큐슈에서 수행한 퍼포먼스 중 촬영된 것이다. 작가의 몸은 바위의 곡선을 따라가며 땅과 하늘을 연결하고, 또 그 둘을 가르는 하나의 선이 된다. 자연의 경계에 등을 대고 누운 그녀의 수평적 신체는 그것을 보고 있는 관람자의 수직적 자세와 대비를 이루며 자리한다.
김수자는 자신의 신체를 움직임과 정지, 자아와 타자, 수평성과 수직성을 가늠하는 하나의 축으로 간주한다. 이는 상징적 십자형상이자, 이원적 현실이 교차하는 지점에 대한 은유적 표상이다. 또한 이 퍼포먼스는 스튜디오에서 소개된 그녀의 첫 퍼포먼스 〈바늘여인〉(1999) — 여러 도시의 군중 속에서 정면을 향해 정지해 서 있는 작업 — 과 긴밀히 연관되며, 자연 속에서 이루어지는 또 다른 변주로 읽힌다.

2000

Performance in 1999, Kitakyushu, Japan

A Laundry Woman – Yamuna River

A Laundry Woman – Yamuna River

C-Print
90.5 x 134 cm
Edition of 8 plus 4 artist's proofs

2000

Performance in 2000, Yamuna River, India

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

A Study on Body (Series of 5 Silkscreen)

A Study on Body (Series of 5 Silkscreen)

Silkscreen
each 34 x 34 cm
Edition of 15 plus 1 artist's proofs

1981

A Study on Body is a performative experiment on the relational structure between body, tableau, and space. Produced in the early 1980s using serigraphy, it forms the
conceptual basis of many works to follow, such as Bottari, A Needle Woman, A Beggar Woman, A Homeless Woman, and Geometry of Body, all of which, in part, rest on the foundational question of horizontality and verticality of the structure of the world.


<몸의 연구>는 1980년대 초에 이루어진 신체, 평면, 공간의 역학 구조에 대한 실험으로, 작가의 퍼포먼스를 실크스크린으로 제작한 것이다. 이 작품은 작가의 역사적, 사회적, 문화적 프로젝트 <보따리>, <바늘 여인>, <보따리 트럭>, <몸의 기하학> 등에 드러난 세계의 수직 수평 구조에 개념적 기반을 두고 있다.

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