Installation at Wanas Konst Art Gallery, Wanas, Sweden
For Wanås Foundation, Sowing Into Painting, Multidimensional Art Project Including Site-specific Installations
Courtesy of Wanås Konst and Kimsooja Studio

Site Specific Installation at Wanas Konst Sculpture Park, Wanas, Sweden
For Wanås Foundation, Sowing Into Painting, Multidimensional Art Project Including Site-specific Installations
Courtesy of Wanås Konst and Kimsooja Studio

Site-specific Installation at Wanas Konst haybarn, Wanas, Sweden
For Wanås Foundation, Sowing Into Painting, Multidimensional Art Project Including Site-specific Installations
Courtesy of Wanås Konst and Kimsooja Studio

Installation view at To Breathe - The Light House, 2020-2021, Boghossian Foundation, Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium

Installation at the 1st Asia Society Triennial: We Do Not Dream Alone: Art and creativity under lockdown, Asia Society Museum, New York, USA
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Archives from 'Sowing into Painting' project, Wanås Konst, Sweden, 2020
Flax oil, flax seeds capsules, flax seeds, linen fiber, yarn balls, woven linen canvas fabric
Courtesy Kimsooja Studio, KEWENIG, Berlin et Wanås Konst, Wanås
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Exploring the conceptual relationship between culture and agriculture, painting and textiles, these objects exemplify harvests from the artist’s flax plantation project in Wanås, Sweden. The flax seed produces both linseed oil used to make oil paint and linen fiber, which is woven into canvases—the two basic materials for painting. The field becomes a life painting, planted into the earth, cultivated, and harvested, threading the idea of painting, agriculture, and textile together. The flax fibers harvested from Sowing into Painting are woven into canvases to produce Meta-Painting. In this new work, Kimsooja conceptualized painting in the form of cyclical painting, or painting before painting, after over forty years of departure from any brushwork on canvas.


문화와 농경, 회화와 직조 사이의 개념적 관계를 탐구하는 이 오브제는, 스웨덴 바노스(Wanås)에 위치한 작가의 아마(flax) 재배 프로젝트에서 나온 결과물이다. 아마의 씨앗은 유화를 만드는 데 사용되는 린시드 오일을 생산하는 동시에, 캔버스를 짜는 데 사용되는 린넨 섬유를 제공한다. 즉, 회화를 구성하는 가장 기본적인 두 재료가 하나의 식물에서 기원하는 것이다. 이 밭은 파종되고, 경작되고, 수확된다는 점에서 하나의 ‘생태적 회화’가 되며, 회화·농경·직조라는 세 개념을 하나의 과정으로 엮어낸다. <씨 뿌려 그리기> 작품을 통해 수확된 아마 섬유는 다시 직조되어 〈메타-페인팅〉이라는 새로운 캔버스로 전환된다. 이 작품에서 김수자는 붓질을 떠난 지 40여 년 만에, 회화를 ‘순환적 회화’ 혹은 ‘회화 이전의 회화’라는 형태로 개념화하며 회화의 근원적 의미를 재사유한다.

Site-specific Project at Wanas Konst, Sweden
Work in Progress with Two Planted Varieties of Flax Seeds (for Flax Seeds Oil and Linen) in Wanås Konst Open Fields
Courtesy of Wanås Konst and Kimsooja Studio
For Wanås Foundation, Sowing Into Painting, Multidimensional Art Project Including Site-specific Installations