KIMHEESOO ART CENTER, SEOUL (KR)
River of Shadows presents BoMin Kim’s new perspective on the city as a landscape where recent history and the present are mixed. The artist looks into the past and imagines how the city was formed, and deals with the accelerated desire of the city to move forward and upward. After industrialization and economic development, the way and speed at which individuals perceive ‘time’ has changed. In this exhibition, Kim's work starts from the Han Riverside in Seoul and the open port of Incheon, unraveling the condensed story of urban modernization and redefining the temporality layered between tradition and modernity. The artist said that by walking along the riverside and looking around, she tries to sense past time and space that have now disappeared. The works presented this time are records of the ‘here and now’ left by the artist as he moved her body, imagining invisible times in places where her gaze rested and feet reached.
Contemplating the disconnect between time and place, place and place, Kim quietly unfolds the story in a delicate yet firm tone for what is missing in the current landscape. The artist willingly gives us a space by opening a gap so that we can directly enter the scenery. River of Shadows is a place where we propose to move together according to the artist's gaze. The scene presented by Kim is not just a city of the present that is disconnected from the past. It is a scene connected to the near future, a fluid space-time that continues to move and squirm at every moment. The artist exists here.
