- Artist Siyeon Kim
Thread
2011 Digital Print 39.4x55.1 in
Thread
Siyeon Kim
May 10 – June 9, 2012
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 10, 6-8PM
DOOSAN Gallery New York is pleased to announce Thread, the solo exhibition of Siyeon Kim, from May 10 to June 9, 2012. The exhibition features three digital prints and her latest installation work.
Kim is renowned for her installations and digital prints which represent an ordinary scene in a surrealistic circumstance. The point of departure in Kim’s works often appears in the medium of her installation. She elaborates with consumable material which can disappear or expire in a flash, yet depicts its instant and aggressiveness.
Kim cautiously plans the intricate composition and the fragile objects. The skein made of eraser dust, needle and color pencils used as a metaphor for the subtle energy such as state of gloomy sentiment, sense of loss and lack of communication in modern society. Furthermore, she describes paradox of the contemporary art by suggesting contradiction of approachable matter in the ‘inaccessible condition’ which acts as a kind of psychological barricade.
Si Yeon Kim was born in 1971 in Seoul, Korea. She received B.F.A and M.F.A. in sculpture from Ewha Womans University in Seoul, Korea, M.F.A. in Fine Arts from School of Visual Arts in New York, NY, USA. She has had solo exhibitions at 16 bungee (2011, Seoul, Korea), Gallery Hyundai Window, (2010, Seoul, Korea), Gallery Satori (2009, New York, NY, USA), and Gallery Em (2008, Seoul, Korea). Her works has also been included in group exhibitions at Seoul Museum of Art (2009, Seoul, Korea), Ssamzie Space (2007, Seoul Korea), Seoul Olympic Museum of Art (2006, Seoul, Korea), National Museum of Contemporary Art (2004, Gwacheon, Korea), Art in General (2002, New York, NY, USA), and Queens Museum of Art (2001, Queens, NY, USA).