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City Center Transformation, Sydney | Unfolding

City Center Transformation, Sydney | Unfolding

Detail Drawing of Proposed Mixed Media Site-specifc Installation
East West Connectors, Sydney, Australia

2014

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

2014

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

2014

[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

2014

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

2014

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

2014

To Breathe: Obangsaek

To Breathe: Obangsaek

Site-specific Wallpaper Installation

2014

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

2014

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

2014

Site-specific Installation at Kimsooja, To Breathe: Obengsaek,Gallery Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland, 2014-2015

Deductive Object: Obangsaek

Deductive Object: Obangsaek

Wallpaper

2014

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

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.

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.

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.

2014

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

2014

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

2014

Video Still Image from Thread Routes - Chapter I, 2010

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