MMCA HYUNDAI MOTOR SERIES is
the museum's annual program sponsored by the Hyundai Motor company. Since its
inauguration in 2014, the series has been inviting and supporting one leading
artist of Korea every year. Artist Kimsooja (b.1957~) has been selected for
this year. For the past 30 years, Kimsooja’s ever-evolving work has explored
painting, daily objects, actions, and social issues such as migration, exile,
and violence. The project will bring together nine pieces to present an
overview of Kimsooja’s artistic realm and will serve as an impetus for the
artist to seek a meaningful shift in her practice.
Addressing issues of self
and others, Kimsooja's work spans site-specific installation, performance,
video and photo using sound, light and bed covers. With the gaze of a mirror
and a needle that reveals and brings us to an awareness of self, Kimsooja
investigates questions concerning the conditions of humanity, while engaging
politics, environment and various issues that we are facing in this era. Kimsooja
brings together a conceptual and structural investigation of performance,
installation, video and photography, as well as painting, drawing and
sculpture, through an exploration of materiality/immateriality,
mobility/immobility, in a manner of non-making and non-doing, that inverts the
notion of the artist as the predominant actor. It will also provide viewers
with a forum where they reflect on life and the art of our generation through
their engagement and communication.
