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Bottari – Chasing the Fog
Single Channel Video
4:34 loop, Silent
Edition of 6 plus 1 artist's proof
Bottari – Zocalo
Single Channel Video
3:18 loop, Silent
Edition of 4 plus 2 artist's proofs
A Beggar Woman – Mexico City
Performance Video
Single Channel, 8:50 loop, Silent
A Homeless Woman – Delhi
C-Print
90.5 x 134 cm
Edition of 8 plus 4 artist's proofs
Performance in 2000, Delhi, India
A Homeless Woman – Delhi
Performance Video
Single Channel, 6:33 loop, Silent
Edition of 4 plus 2 artist's proofs
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
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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.
Performance in 1999, Kitakyushu, Japan
A Laundry Woman – Yamuna River
C-Print
90.5 x 134 cm
Edition of 8 plus 4 artist's proofs
Performance in 2000, Yamuna River, India
A Laundry Woman – Yamuna River, India
Performance Video
Single Channel, 10:30 loop, Silent
Edition of 4 plus 2 artist's proofs
A Laundry Woman
Used Korean Bedcovers and Used Clothing
Dimensions Variable
Courtesy of Kimsooja Studio
Installation at Kimsooja, A Needle Woman - A Woman Who Weaves the World, Rodin Gallery(Plateau Samsung Museum of Art), Seoul, Korea
Deductive Object
Used Korean Bedcovers and Used Clothes
Dimensions Variable
Courtesy of Brandts Klaedefabrick and Kimsooja Studio
Installation at Kim Sooja + Yang Pei Ming, Selfscape at Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense, Denmark
Bottari Truck
2.5 ton truck from South Korea, Bottaris, Bungee Cords
Installation at Kimsooja, A Needle Woman - A Woman Who Weaves the World, Rodin Gallery (Plateau Samsung Museum of Art), Seoul, Korea
Bottari
Used Korean Bedcovers and Clothing
Dimensions Variable
Photo by Pierre Laborde
Installation at Sharing Exotism, The 5th Biennale de Lyon 2000, Halle Tony Garnier, Lyon, France
A Laundry Woman
Used Korean Bedcovers and Used Clothing
Dimensions Variable
Courtesy of Kimsooja Studio
Installation at The 3rd Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art: Beyond the Future, Brisbane, Australia
A Needle Woman – Kitakyushu
Performance Video
Single Channel, 6:33 loop, Silent
Edition of 4 plus 2 artist's proofs
d'Apertutto, or Bottari Truck in Exile
2.5 ton truck from South Korea, Bottaris, Bungee Cords
Installation at The 48th Venice Biennale: dAPERTutto, Venice, Italy
Encounter – Looking into Sewing
Performative Sculpture
Used Korean Bedcovers, Mannequin
Installation at Echolot, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany, Group Exhibition
Cities In The Move – 11633 Miles of Bottari Truck
2 ton truck from South Korea, Bottaris, Bungee Cords
Installation at The 24th Sao Paulo Biennale: Cultural Anthropophagy, São Paulo, Brazil
Deep Breathing
Single Channel Video
3:10 loop, Silent
Edition of 6 plus 1 artist's proof
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
Deductive Object – Dedicated to My Marriage
Fragments of Fabric from Used Clothes and Bedcovers
Installation at The 5th International Istanbul Biennale: On life, beauty, translations and other difficulties, Istanbul, Turkey
Cities on the Move – 2727 Kilometers Bottari Truck
Performance Video
Single Channel, 7:33 loop, Silent
Edition of 2 plus 1 artist's proof
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The original performance took place in the context of the project, "Cities On the Move", and illustrated the special state of mind of people who are forced due to their life circumstances to move their homes again and again. The resulting special relationship to space and time, typical for migrants, which is usually hard to comprehend for non-migrants, becomes especially apparent in the “Bottari Truck“. The artist described it as follows: ’ “Bottari Truck” is a processing object throughout space and time / locating and dislocating / ourselves to the place / where we came from / and where we are going to.’1There are few works, which focus on the topic of migration and how it seizes people again and again in the same way,with such precision, yet, without falling into any kind of the ideology. Bottaris are bundles, in which Korean people, in particular women, are traditionally tying together their belongings in cloths, to take with them when moving–out of necessity or voluntarily-to another place. The cloths are usually bed cloths or bedspreads, given as the traditional Korean wedding gift. Thus they are closely bound to their owners, often accompany them until the end of their life, also because the motifs, inserted into the cloths,represent the well wishes of the giver, which are hoped to be fulfilled during the course of life.
원작 퍼포먼스는 〈떠도는 도시들〉 프로젝트의 맥락 안에서 수행되었으며, 삶의 조건에 의해 반복적으로 거처를 옮겨야 하는 사람들의 특별한 심리 상태를 드러내는 작업이었다. 이러한 이주민 특유의 시간·공간에 대한 감각은 그것을 경험해보지 못한 이들에게 이해하기 어려운 부분이 있음에도 불구하고, 〈보따리 트럭〉에서는 그것이 유난히 명확하게 드러난다. 작가는 이를 다음과 같이 설명한다.
“보따리 트럭은 시간과 공간을 가로지르는 과정적 오브제이며, 우리가 어디에서 왔는지, 어디로 가는지를 끊임없이 위치시키고 이탈시키는 존재이다.”
이주 문제를 다루면서도 어떤 이념적 입장에도 기울지 않은 채, 이주가 사람들에게 반복적으로 다가오는 방식을 이토록 정확하게 포착한 작품은 드물다.
보따리는 한국에서, 특히 여성들이 이동할 때 자신의 소지품을 천으로 싸서 묶어 가지고 다니던 전통적 방식이다. 보통 신혼부부의 침구나 혼수로 받은 이불보 등이 사용되며, 이러한 보따리들은 주인의 삶 전체를 함께하는 경우가 많다. 그 천에 새겨진 문양들은 선물을 준 이가 품은 길상적 염원을 담고 있으며, 삶의 여정 속에서 그 소망이 이루어지기를 바라는 마음을 표현한다.
A Laundry Field
Used Korean Bedcovers
Variable
Installation at Kimsooja, A Laundry Field — Sewing into Walking. Looking into Sewing, Oakville Galleries, Ontario, Canada
Deductive Object
Used Korean Bedcovers, Used Clothing
Dimensions Variable
Installation at Kimsooja, Deductive Object, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya, Japan, Solo Exhibition
Deductive Object
Used Korean Bedcovers
Dimensions Variable
Installation at Setagaya Art Museum Group Exhibition
Deductive Object
Used Korean Bedcovers, Used Clothing
Dimensions Variable
Installation at The Scream - Borealis 8, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark, Group Exhibition
Deductive Object
Used Korean Bedcovers and Used Clothing
Dimensions Variable
Deductive Object
Used Korean Bedcovers, Korean Food, Korean Music
Dimensions Variable
Deductive Object – Dedicated to My Neighbors
Used Korean Bedcovers, Used Clothes
Dimensions Variable
Installation at Group exhibition Circulating Currents: Japanese and Korean Contemporary Art, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan
Deductive Object
Used Korean Bedcovers and Used clothes
Dimensions Variable
Courtesy of The Korean Culture and Arts Foundation, Seoul and Kimsooja Studio
Installation at The Korean Culture and Arts Foundation, Seoul, Korea
Deductive Object
Used Korean Bedcovers
Dimensions Variable
Installation at Fruitmarket Gallery Group Exhibition