- ProgramDOOSAN Yonkang Arts Awards
- Artist Siyeon Kim
Yellowish
2012 Digital print 130×200cm
DOOSAN Gallery Seoul is pleased to present Yellowish by Siyeon Kim, the recipient of The 1st DOOSAN Yonkang Artist Award in 2010, from November 22nd to December 20th, 2012. This solo exhibition presents Kim's recent photography and installation works.
Siyeon Kim’s installation works made of common everyday objects — such as salt, soap, buttons, needles, egg shells, and eraser flakes — and photographs that portray them metaphorically express the human existential loneliness and alienation. With a faint and delicate presence, the color white that dominates Kim’s work symbolizes subtle but detectable emotions like sadness and anxiety. Starting with Thread series in 2011, Kim’s previously black-and-white or monotone works began to show non-specific bluish colors, capturing particular emotions aroused by such colors. This exhibition presents Kim’s recent work Yellowish, in which everyday objects like cups, spoons, egg shells, plastic bags, paper cups, yellowish butter and eraser flakes are placed precariously at the edge of the table, intricately capturing the intangible state of human anxiety.
Siyeon Kim (b. 1971) received her B.F.A. and M.F.A. in Sculpture from Ewha Womans University in Seoul, Korea and a M.F.A. in Fine Arts from School of Visual Arts in New York, NY, U.S.A. She has had solo exhibitions at DOOSAN Gallery (2012, New York, NY, U.S.A), 16 bungee (2011, Seoul, Korea), Gallery Satori (2009, New York, NY, U.S.A), Gallery em (2008, Seoul, Korea), Her works has also been included at Seoul Museum of Art (2009, Seoul, Korea), The Annex Gallery (2009, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), PS122 Gallery (2008, New York, NY, U.S.A), 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, U.S.A), and Queens Museum of Art (2001, Queens, NY, U.S.A).