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”








                We all originate from the core of emotion.


                A rock, the nature, our body is a perfect connected metaphor, an allegory in volume. When placed it’s sculptural limits beget a kind of proposition — and when considered with reduced anthropomorphism and ungeologically — produce a ready-made analog to the causation and bounds of our attempts at the understanding of all things.




Kim Hyun Jee is a sculptor who centres her work on 압 (壓, 押) – "the act of pressing”. In reflecting our current socio-political landscape, where radical politics often exploit or diminish the power of language, she engages with the layered meanings of the traditional Chinese character 압 (壓, 押), which can be interpreted as ‘physically pressing’ or ‘psychological, social pressure’.


Using ceramics, silicone rubber, and other mixed media, Kim expresses her philosophies through the concept of "pressing"—fully embracing the primitive pressure, temperature, and emotion. Her work suggests new possibilities for communication, emphasizing the transformative power of poetic expression.



Mark







Artist Residency-


at Arts Letters and Numbers, Averill Park, NY, US

                                                                 






Arts Letters & Numbers is an emergent structure opening spaces within broad human and disciplinary geographies; spaces of participation, of communication, of reciprocity, for people and their works to listen to each other, to listen to the world.

Conceived as a Disciplinary Chora, Arts Letters & Numbers is a place of creative urgency and intensity of purpose, a place to create new linkages, new thought processes, new pathways of understanding that embody our best hopes and aspirations, a place where many elements come together to co-construct questions and works; of empathy, of ethics, of imagination that include our nuanced fragilities in our shared stories.

The transformations of our time contain great promises and great challenges; they call for considered stewardship and new spaces bringing together diverse voices, visions, forms of knowledge and expression, spaces to care for and strengthen the fibers of our social contract; to transform how we experience today into how we will experience tomorrow.






Breathing nature, living nature,