Grace Kim creates existential and poetic landscapes showing different strata of time, place and conscience. The photographs are made through a process of photography and digital collage. Kim reconstructs the fragments of sequences shot on her travels and daily wanderings in real life and on the Internet.
The collage process echoes the process of memory: selective fragments which she chooses to include or exclude, to highlight or bury in the background. These photographs also reflect her interest in Buddhist philosophy and quantum theory. They explore questions of the visible and perception, of the physical and the mystical—how to give form to what is invisible and imperceptible? How do you account for the simultaneity of several states and realities? For her, time and space have no beginning, no end; the cycles of life and evolution occur simultaneously. She cites the comedian Bill Hicks: “All matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.”
American artist Grace Kim studied at the School of Visual Arts in and the International Center of Photography in New York. She is currently pursuing a doctorate in philosophy at the European Graduate School in Switzerland. In 2012, she was featured in the magazine FOAM Talent and exhibited at the Dean Project gallery in New York as part of the AHL Foundation Visual Arts Competition. She lives in Berlin.
PAST EXHIBITION
Grace Kim
Some Place Like Home
09.01.2014 – 11.03.2014
Galerie Madé
30 rue Mazarine
75006 Paris
France
http://www.galeriemade.com
