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






My Father

 




My Father 
ceramic with glaze, calico, fabric glue, metal, 2021
           


About the dilemma between listening the obligation of being a daughter and honest emotion towards my father.

Listening to the continuing life with remaining anger and resentment, sadness, confusion.

And asking myself why can’t I let it go, why am I still trying hard to continue the role as a daughter.

Like holding the broken pieces of a china by force to make it stay as how it was.