Seongjun Kim
About
Seongjun Kim(b.1996 South Korea) explores the active human desire to touch, move, and transform objects while creating something in tangible space and describes the power structure between subject and object, observing the physical connection between hands and things.
For example, Kim transforms usual steel, wood and duvets into sculptures and readymade, describing the differences in their properties revealed by contact. The traces of force exerted recall his unilateral action and imply violence the objects suffered. He records traces of covert violence and uses them to create sensory anxieties with variable power structures between objects.
Kim’s performances challenge conventional notions of gestures such as play, exercise, and menial labour. Like working out, playing catch with chalk balls, and wiping the floor in a gym studio, the illogical context of arbitrarily mixing gestures creates subtle confusion and obscures the hierarchical value of gestures.
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