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.
Hi Soyeong- I like your comment- very insightful
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