United Kingdom
Statement
Bohyeon Kim is a South Korean artist who recently graduated from Slade School of Fine Art in London with an MFA. With the influence of the internet generation, she has been attracted to explore the relationship between phenomena of the digital age and ecosystems, combining both a futuristic and archival approach to synthesizing and presenting information.
I explore the framework of painting through sculptural intervention. Employing found objects and digital images woven into sprawling installations, anthropomorphic and surreal qualities emerge. Probing the relation between object and subject, my practice is centred on deconstructing layers of form, colour, shape and texture, agitating the materiality of surface.
I seek out the elegance of anxiety, or of excitation through the tropes of experimentation and pataphysics, examining and speculating on the dialectical relation between object and subject.
Profile
GlogauAIR resident from January, 2019 to Woodbona
GlogauAIR Project
Engraved layers of Time
In a sense of an archaeology like abstract paintings; an exploration of color, surface, spatiality, and temporality; duration reveals a method in which the mass of the pigment itself becomes a stereoscopic narrative. It is also fragmented into the present times with individual senses of time—Space is largely divided into the actual space and the space of symbol, both of which are measured by time. Various objects secure the fragmentation I chooses; the materials coexist in the field of forms. To trace overlayered time and to give rebirth of their life, they get refunction of their characters. I am into the interplay between the artificial image of nature created via textualised and manipulation and the processes of entropy, and overlayering the passage of time.
I search for how to transform an existing space into pictorial space emphasizing a potential space for multidimensional composition. Photograph prints and objects are my mediums as like each layers of brush strokes. I enjoy the moment as time layer when the work comes together in the space and creates a life of its own. When new elements emerge out of the installation
CV Summary
b.1989
EDUCATION
- 2018 (MFA) Master of Fine Arts, Slade School of Fine Arts, University College London ; Distinction
- 2008 – 2012 (BA) Bachelor of Fine Arts in Oriental Painting, Chung-Ang University , South Korea
