KIM
HYUNJEE
 




WORKS︎

2019-
  1. Full Bloom
  2. A Pond
  3. Dreaming at the Beach
  4. My Father
  5. My Father’s Dancing Legs
  6. Bed Fight at 10 
  7. Documentation [30.11.2020-11.2.2021] On Potato
  8. I Want to Understand You and I Forgive You
  9. I Can’t Find My Home
  10. Home Dinner [babsang 밥상]
  11. Spiders in My Bed
  12. Toastbook 
  13. My Quiet Room



PROJECTS
2020-
  1. Dancing Leg
  2. In My Dreams
  3. How to Bake a Cake



EXPERIENCES
2023-
  1. Transformation Project, Averill Park, NY, US
  2. Arts Letters and Numbers, Averill Park, NY, US
  3. Aesthetics of Bliss, London, GB





PRESS
2023-
  1. CBS6 Albany, 2023 - 

    “Nopiates committee's transformation project sheds light on substance abuse disorder”








               Constant becoming. Accumulated mistakes.
       


                    A thing is not just what it is right now, but also what it withdraws from us, what it could be, and what it might become.






 

Hyunjee Kim is a sculptor based in London, UK focusing on the process of making, resonating with Daoism and phenomenology. Kim ‘stops’ repeating the process at one point and watch the piece going on its new journey from that linear line. Her works withdraw from her as they belong to the larger unfolding of existence.

Using plaster, Kim creates something that wants to become something, something that chooses a path of becoming something new instead. Something new that is not new, but something that exists beyond our desire, dream, and fear. A belongingness that ties people together via our imaginations, individual expressions that differentiates how each of us perceive it. Her focus weighs on the process of ‘wandering’ and ‘walking’, drawing an intuitive map.

What she was making is not just what it used to be anymore, and that makes us foresee the existence beyond her perception at present and eventually starting to believe on what it could be, and what it might become. Her pieces contain a dynamic of endless possibilities and potentials that might over time change.



Mark






I Want to Understand You and I Forgive You








I Want to Understand You and I Forgive You
video, 1’17, 2022
         


I Want to Understand You and I Forgive You manifests as a multimedia opus wherein the artist engages in a recorded introspective monologue, delving into the intricacies of their paternal sentiments. The absence of scripted discourse imbues the piece with an unfiltered authenticity, akin to a solipsistic therapeutic dialogue, encapsulating the artist's journey toward self-revelation. In the atmospheric backdrop of an overcast and blustery day, the artist grapples with a heightened emotional state, transcending the quotidian tribulations. Against this tumultuous emotional canvas, the artist's attention is drawn to a solitary tree, its sinuous branches gracefully swaying in response to a subtle zephyr. These arboreal appendages, in their undulating cadence, evoke an anthropomorphic semblance of anguish and bewilderment, yet persistently exhibit an innate inclination toward survival—an allegory harmonizing with the artist's own existential milieu.

This documentation serves as an intimate visual testament, portraying my silent communion with the arboreal subject, thereby encapsulating a profound symbiosis between introspective human inquiry and the stoic resilience of the natural realm, navigating the nexus of emotional self-exploration and a contemplative rendezvous with the arboreal tapestry. In this multidimensional creation, the artist's internal narrative converges with the silent struggles of nature, beseeching viewers to not only witness the unfolding of a personal odyssey but also to engage in a cerebral discourse on the indomitable human spirit in the face of existential tempests.


Click - Link to the video


Stills from the video