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Agua de Tierra / Water of Earth, 2009/2015
Agua de Tierra / Water of Earth, 2009/2015
Digital C-Print
103.5 x 170 cm
Edition of 5 plus 2 artist's proofs
Video Still Image from Agua de Tierra / Water of Earth, 2009
Tierra de Agua / Earth of Water, 2009/2015
Tierra de Agua / Earth of Water, 2009/2015
Digital C-Print
103.5 x 170 cm
Edition of 5 plus 2 artist's proofs
Video Still Image from Tierra de Agua / Earth of Water, 2009
Deductive Object, 2009/2015
Deductive Object, 2009/2015
Digital C-Print
115.6 x 172.7 cm
Edition of 5 plus 2 artist's proofs
Photo by Kimsooja at Cairo, 2009
Deductive Object – Cemetery, 2008/2015
Deductive Object – Cemetery, 2008/2015
Digital C-Print
74.4 x 55.9 cm
Edition of 8 plus 3 artist's proofs
Deductive Object – Father's Grave, 2008/2015
Deductive Object – Father's Grave, 2008/2015
Digital C-Print
74.4 x 55.9 cm
Edition of 8 plus 3 artist's proofs
Unfolding Bottari – Geometry of Possession, 1991-2015
Unfolding Bottari – Geometry of Possession, 1991-2015
Digital Slideshow
Selected 223 Flea-Marktet Photographs from the Artist's on going photo project around the world
Unfolding Bottari – Geometry of Possession, 1991-2015
Unfolding Bottari – Geometry of Possession, 1991-2015
223 Prints on Hahnemuhle Paper Divided into Three Used Wooden Boxes
Print: each 17.3 x 18.4 cm
Drawer: each 21.6 x 27.9 x 15.2 cm
City Center Transformation, Sydney | Unfolding
City Center Transformation, Sydney | Unfolding
Detail Drawing of Proposed Mixed Media Site-specifc Installation
East West Connectors, Sydney, Australia
Unfolding Bottari - Geometry of Possession, 1991-2014
Unfolding Bottari - Geometry of Possession, 1991-2014
113 Prints on Hahnemuhle Paper Divided into Two Used Wooden Boxes
Print: each 17.8 x 22.2 cm
Box: each 13.3 x 44.5 x 15.9 cm
Unfolding Bottari - Geometry of Possession
Unfolding Bottari - Geometry of Possession
Bottari – An Island
Bottari – An Island
Installation at Kimsooja, To Breathe: Mandala, Kewenig Galerie, Palma, Majorca, Spain
Courtesy of Kewenig Galerie, Palma and Kimsooja Studio
[left] ] Bottari, 2009/2014, Used Korean Bedcover, Used Clothes, Clay Basin from Mallorca, 62 x 49cm (approx)
[center] Bottari, 2009/2014, Used Korean Bedcover, Used Clothes, Clay Basin from Mallorca, 63 x 53cm (approx)
[right] Bottari, 2014, Used Korean Bedcover, Fabric, Catholic Mass Reading/Chant Book for Fathers, 80 x 45 cm (approx)
A Needle Woman: Galaxy was a Memory, Earth is a Souvenir
A Needle Woman: Galaxy was a Memory, Earth is a Souvenir
Digital C-Print
117.5 x 82.5 cm
Edition of 8 plus 2 artist's proofs
Installation at the 1st Cornell Council for the Arts(CCA) Biennial: Kimsooja, A Needle Woman: Galaxy Was a Memory, Earth is a Souvenir, Cornell University Arts Quad, Ithaca, New York, USA
A Needle Woman: Galaxy was a Memory, Earth is a Souvenir
A Needle Woman: Galaxy was a Memory, Earth is a Souvenir
Steel, Custom Acrylic Panel, Laminated Polymer Film, Circular Mirror
Photo by Jaeho Chong
Installation at the 1st Cornell Council for the Arts(CCA) Biennial: Kimsooja, A Needle Woman: Galaxy Was a Memory, Earth is a Souvenir, Cornell University Arts Quad, Ithaca, New York, USA
Unfolding Bottari – Geometry of Possession, 1991-2014
Unfolding Bottari – Geometry of Possession, 1991-2014
223 Prints on Hahnemuhle Paper Divided into Two Used Wooden Boxes
Print: each 17.8 x 22.2 cm
Box: each 13.3 x 44.5 x 15.9 cm
To Breathe: Obangsaek
To Breathe: Obangsaek
Site-specific Wallpaper Installation
Installation at Kimsooja, To Breathe: Obengsaek, Gallery Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland, 2014-2015
Deductive Object: Obangsaek
Deductive Object: Obangsaek
Woven Carpet Installation
600 x 120 cm
Site-specific Installation at Kimsooja, To Breathe: Obengsaek, Gallery Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland, 2014 - 2015
Deductive Object: Obangsaek
Deductive Object: Obangsaek
Woven Carpet - Semi Worsted Wool Carpet
120 x 30(dia)cm
Site-specific Installation at Kimsooja, To Breathe: Obengsaek,Gallery Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland, 2014-2015
Deductive Object: Obangsaek
Deductive Object: Obangsaek
Wallpaper
Thread Routes – Chapter IV
Thread Routes – Chapter IV
Single Channel Video
27:48 loop, 5.1 Sound, HD
Edition of 6 plus 1 artist's proof
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Thread Routes is Kimsooja’s first 16mm film series, after having spent more than three decades contextualizing and conceptualizing textiles as a canvas that supports a structural investigation of human life, nature and the world.
While contemporary art has long considered textiles as craft, Kimsooja has consistently sought to connect the nature of textiles to the performative, the sculptural/architectural, the notion of tableau and questions of gender, aesthetics and culture.
Divided into six chapters, Thread Routes takes place in six different cultural zones around the world. Kimsooja considers her approach as a 'visual poem' and a 'visual anthropology' in juxtaposing and presenting structural similarities in performative elements of textile culture with the structures in nature, architecture, agriculture and gender relationships in different cultures. These non-descriptive and non-narrative documentary films were conceived after being inspired in Bruge, Belgium in 2002, by traditional lace making, and its performative elements and architectural structure.
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In 2014, Kimsooja filmed Chapter IV in China where she encountered the specific weaving, dyeing and garment culture of the Miao minority in the Guizhou, Hainan and Yunnan provinces. These are depicted alongside elaborate silver adornment and paper making as well as the ancient local housing structures in Fujian, the rice terraces of Yunnan and the landscapes of Guizhou and Hainan.
〈실의 궤적〉은 인간의 삶, 자연, 세계의 구조를 탐구하는 회화적 장(場)으로서 텍스타일을 30여 년에 걸쳐 맥락화하고 개념화해 온 이후, 김수자가 처음으로 제작한 16mm 필름 연작이다. 동시대 미술이 오랫동안 텍스타일을 공예로 간주해 왔음에도 김수자는 텍스타일의 본질을 퍼포머티브한 차원, 조각·건축적 차원, 타블로(tableau)의 개념, 그리고 젠더·미학·문화에 대한 질문들과 지속적으로 연결해 왔다.
여섯 개의 장으로 구성된 〈실의 궤적〉은 전 세계 여섯 개의 서로 다른 문화권을 배경으로 제작되었다. 김수자는 이 접근을 ‘시각적 시(visual poem)’이자 ‘시각적 인류학(visual anthropology)’으로 간주하며, 텍스타일 문화의 퍼포먼스적 요소들이 자연, 건축, 농경, 젠더 관계의 구조들과 지니는 형식적 유사성을 병치해 제시한다. 이 비서사적이고 비서술적인 다큐멘터리 필름들은 2002년 벨기에 브뤼헤에서 전통 레이스 제작과 그 퍼포먼스적·건축적 구조를 목격한 경험에서 영감을 받아 구상되었다.
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Chapter IV (2014) — 중국
2014년, 김수자는 중국에서 네 번째 챕터를 촬영하며 구이저우, 하이난, 윈난 지역의 묘족(Miao) 공동체가 지닌 독특한 직조, 염색, 의복 문화를 마주했다. 이러한 요소들은 정교한 은장신구와 제지 공예, 푸젠 지역의 고대 주거 구조물, 윈난의 계단식 논, 그리고 구이저우와 하이난의 자연 풍경과 함께 병치되어 나타난다.
A Mirror Woman – The Sun & The Moon, 2008/2014
A Mirror Woman – The Sun & The Moon, 2008/2014
Giclée Inkjet Print
51.4 x 86.7cm
Edition of 8 plus 2 artist's proofs
Photo by Tadahisa Sakurai
This project was possible with the generous support of Shiseido Co., Ltd.
Thread Routes – Chapter I, 2010/2014
Thread Routes – Chapter I, 2010/2014
Giclée Inkjet Print
51.4 x 90.8 cm
Video Still Image from Thread Routes - Chapter I, 2010
An Album: Sewing into Borderlines
An Album: Sewing into Borderlines
Single Channel Video, 11:01 loop, Silent
Edition of 1 plus 1 artist's proof
Site-specific Video Installation at Mariposa Land Port of Entry, Arizona, USA
Commissioned through the GSA Art in Architecture Program, Fine Arts Collection, U.S. General Services Administration
Lotus: Zone of Zero
Lotus: Zone of Zero
336 Lotus Lanterns, Tibetan, Gregorian and Islamic Chants, Steel Structure, Cables
Dimensions Variable
Photo by Rachel Topham
Retrospective exhibition at Kimsooja / Unfolding, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
First exhibited in a different configuration at the Palais Rameau, Lille, 2003, Courtesy Dijon Consortium
Architecture of Vulnerability (Series of 3 Prints)
Architecture of Vulnerability (Series of 3 Prints)
Digital C-Print
47 x 71 cm
Edition of 6 plus 2 artist's proofs
To Breathe: Obangsaek
To Breathe: Obangsaek
Site-specific Wallpaper Installation
Variable
Photo by Jaeho Chong
Installation at The Lift, the Bloomberg Building, New York, USA
To Breathe – Bottari
To Breathe – Bottari
Duraclear Photographic Print in Lightbox
119 x 89 x 16 cm
Edition of 8 plus 2 artist's proofs
Photo by Jaeho Chong
Site-Specific Installation at the To Breathe: Bottari, The Korean Pavilion, 55th Biennale De Venezia, Venice, Italy, 2013
To Breathe – The Flags
To Breathe – The Flags
To Breathe – The Flags, Series of 12 Video Still Images
Photo by Elizabeth Carecchio
Site-specific Installation at the Marseille-Provence European Capital of Culture 2013: Kimsooja, To Breathe - The Flags, Aix-en-Provence, France
Encounter – Looking Into Sewing, 1998/2013
Encounter – Looking Into Sewing, 1998/2013
Digital Flex Print
203.2 x 116.8 cm
Edition of 6 plus 2 artist's proofs
Photo by Simon Vogel
Performative Sculpture in 1998
Deductive Object VII, 1996/2013
Deductive Object VII, 1996/2013
Digital Flex Print
101.6 x 74.7 cm
Edition of 6 plus 2 artist's proofs
Photo by Adam Scans
Deductive Object VI, 1996/2013
Deductive Object VI, 1996/2013
Digital Flex Print
101.6 x 74.7 cm
Edition of 6 plus 2 artist's proofs
Photo by Adam Scans