[김수자] 미국, 영국, 프랑스 등 최근 전시소개

[김수자 작가전] 뉴욕 Rubin Museum of Art(150 W 17th St New York City, USA) 8월 16일부터 2020년 1월 6일까지 오프닝 8월 16일 6시부터 11시까지

Kimsooja Current Exhibitions August 16, 2019 - January 6, 2020 Opening Celebration: FRIDAY, 8.16.19 6:00 PM - 11:00 PM

<아래작품> 연꽃 제로지역 Kimsooja, Lotus: Zone of Zero, 2008, Installation at Galerie Ravenstein, Brussels. Courtesy of Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Korea, and Kimsooja Studio. Photograph by Fabrice Kada. Clapping with Stones: Art and Acts of Resistance 
Contemplate the power of non-conformity and your own potential for action at Clapping with Stones: Art and Acts of Resistance. Using the Rubin’s circular architecture to create an immersive site-specific display, the exhibition examines social, cultural, and political events through a local and global lens, offering unique perspectives from 10 contemporary artists living and working in the United States and internationally — all of whom are grouped together for the first time in this constellation.

Featuring works in a range of sizes and media, including photography, sculpture, video, textile, and installation, Clapping with Stones articulates a wide variety of societal and political themes while making an open-ended call to action.

Clapping with Stones: Art and Acts of Resistance is organized by guest curator Sara Raza, independent curator and writer. The exhibition is produced by the Rubin Museum of Art. Archive of Mind at Peabody Essex Museum

[김수자전 내 마음의 염원 피바디 엑세스 뮤지엄(Peabody Essex Museum)에서 2019년 6월 22일부터 2020년 1월 19일까지 서울관 전시를 업그레이드한 관객참여형 전시] Kimsooja: Archive of Mind June 22, 2019 - January 19, 2020 Archive of Mind at Peabody Essex Museum(161 Essex Street, Salem, MA 01970) Kimsooja, Archive of Mind, 2019, Courtesy of Courtesy of Peabody Essex Museum and Kimsooja Studio. Photo by Bob Packert. Kimsooja’s work transforms simple, everyday actions into moments of meditation and transcendence. Archive of Mind is a participatory installation that, with visitor collaboration, builds over the course of the exhibition. PEM presents the North American premiere of this work, where museum visitors are encouraged to sit at the large work surface, empty their minds of distraction, and sink into the essentialized experience of forming a ball of clay with their own hands. Through the course of the exhibition, thousands of clay spheres are generated through small, individual gestures that reveal the emotional traces of their makers and cumulatively generate a complex array of texture, scale, and tone. Archive of Mind is the inaugural exhibition in the Jeffery Beale Gallery, forming part of PEM's Present Tense Initiative curated by Trevor Smith. Kimsooja: Archive of Mind was commissioned by the Peabody Essex Museum with the support of Axel Vervoodt Gallery. Kimsooja: To Breathe and A Needle Woman: Galaxy was a Memory, Earth is a Souvenir at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

[김수자전 2019년 3월 30일부터 9월 29일까지 영국 요커셔 조각공원(Yorkshire Sculpture Park )에서 숨결과 바늘여인 ] Kimsooja: To Breathe and A Needle Woman: Galaxy was a Memory, Earth is a Souvenir at Yorkshire Sculpture Park Kimsooja, To Breathe, 2019, Courtesy of Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Axel Vervoodt Gallery, and Kimsooja Studio. Photo by Mark Reeves Kimsooja, A Needle Woman: Galaxy was a Memory, Earth is a Souvenir, 2019, Courtesy of Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Axel Vervoodt Gallery, and Kimsooja Studio. Photo by Jonty Wilde

Kimsooja: To Breathe and A Needle Woman: Galaxy was a Memory, Earth is a Souvenir March 30 - September 29, 2019 Yorkshire Sculpture Park West Bretton Wakefield, WF4 4LG, UK

With a lightness of touch, Kimsooja transforms the entire space of the Yorkshire Sculpture Park's Chapel and blurs expected boundaries. In the immersive installation To Breathe, the floor, covered with a mirrored surface, provides an entirely new way of seeing, seeming to open up and unfold the space, making solid surfaces and confining structures appear fluid and expansive. By placing diffraction film on all the windows, the light that enters forms a myriad of rainbow spectrums across the space, which are reflected infinitely via the mirrored floor.

Responsive to the natural environment, the installation changes according to the light quality and intensity, making every experience different and unique. A soundtrack of the artist breathing accompanies the visually spectacular and meditative installation, creating an intimate and shared encounter. What the artist describes as the “‘void' within the skin of architecture" becomes the body of the work, and a site of communal contemplation for all who encounter it.

Kimsooja’s powerful filmed performance A Needle Woman (1999-2001) involved her standing motionless with her back to the camera amidst endless crowds of people in busy cities including Tokyo, Delhi and Lagos. Grounded, still and calm, her body became a pivot around which humankind seemed to flow. Like a compass point in the landscape, the artist’s towering sculpture A Needle Woman: Galaxy was a Memory, Earth is a Souvenir functions in a similar way and explores the relationship between our bodies and the wider universe beyond.

This elegant, conical sculpture has transparent panels coated with nano polymer, a material that transforms light, giving an iridescence similar to that which occurs naturally on the wings of a butterfly or a beetle’s shell. The work alters dramatically with changing conditions, the nature and angle of light that hits it, and the position from which it is viewed. Within the sculpture, a mirrored floor makes it appear to extend deep into the earth as well as reaching into the sky, and the viewer stands on the ground at the threshold between the two.

Kimsooja: To Breathe and A Needle Woman: Galaxy was a Memory and Earth was a Souvenir was commissioned by the Yorkshire Sculpture Park with the support of Axel Vervoodt Gallery.

[김수자 인터페이스 퍼포먼스 아트_홈리스 우먼(homeless woman) 세상이 만든 거리 프랑스 몽펠리에 현대미술관에서 2919년 6월 8일부터 8월 18일까지 ] The Street. Where the World Is Made at MO.CO.Panacée Kimsooja, A Homeless Woman – Delhi, 2000, Courtesy of MAXXi, Rome, Galleria Rafaella Cortese, Milan, and Kimsooja Studio The Street. Where the World Is Made June 8 – August 18, 2019 MO.CO. Panacée 14 rue de l'Ecole de Pharmacie Montpellier, France / Following an initial version at the Museum of Contemporary Art, MAXXI, Rome, the exhibition at La Panacée, The Street. Where the world is made, offers substantial space to video, since it is through the screen—a sort of interface between the private and the public spheres—that we perceive the world today. Hou Hanru’s project brings together 60 artists from all over the world, itoffers a lively, poetic, and political panorama of this public arena.