Sejin Kim graduated from the Department of Oriental Painting at Hongik University and then majored in film at the Graduate School of Media Arts at Sogang University. She further studied media art at Slade School of Fine Art (UCL) in the UK. She currently lives and works in Seoul, Korea.
김세진, 〈잠자는 태양_프롤로그〉, 2012,
가변채널 HD비디오, 00:38 ©김세진
Artist Note
The so-called “advanced” developed nations, once seen as the future model for
developing countries, have moved the currents of the world for centuries under
the names of great powers or empires. Although formerly colonized and
impoverished countries may have freed themselves from physical constraints,
under the tide of neoliberalism, they continue to repeat new forms of colonial
behavior.
As
the trajectories of migration and movement increase—from East to West, from
South to North—the layers of life experience collide with one another,
generating increasingly dissonant harmonics.
In
Proximity of Longing, I aim to reconstruct the psychological
landscape shaped by such temporal layers—formed over years of direct and
indirect encounters with the complexities of lived time, the unpredictable
futures of modern society, and the discarded past that resurrects itself in the
present. These reconstructions are built upon the narrative structure of the
science fiction genre.
Through
a trilogy of video works and OHP (overhead projector) drawings, I attempt to
visualize the “emptiness,” “futility,” and the symptoms of “excess” and “speed”
embedded in utopian urban ideals—alongside the “desolation,” “ruin,” and “lack”
that exist behind these façades.
