Kimsooja

Kimsooja's artwork represents everyday actions transform to artistic performance and meditation moment. Her performance is usually using her own body and expresses her feeling and respond in artistic way. In the video, she is facing away from the camera and watching people, who are passing through her by just standing in the crowded way. We can find three different perspectives in there such as the camera of view, people who are watching her, and passing behind her. We literally see and respond through her in that video.

Furthermore, she always discovers artistic questions and answers from daily activities. One of examples is performance using the Bottari, which is Korean traditional bag to carry stuff. One day, she realized that her bottari looked totally different. She realized that it has worth to be used as three dimensional sculpture. Moreover, she realized meaning of bottari in more realistic artistic way, as it is social and cultural object. The bottari was very much routine to her family history, which has to move a lot to another place. I was very impressed by her artistic performance because I thought art is far away from my life. My prejudice of art was art has to be very extraordinary and something that cannot understand easily. However, Kim’s art lead me to realize art is very close in our life like meditation. Art can be anything that we feel and think in our daily life.