“The Apple and The Moon” Installation view ©Gallery BatonGallery
Baton presents a solo exhibition by Doki Kim, “The Apple and The Moon” on view
through September 14. Kim, who has been relentlessly exploring the way the
world works and her appreciation of it through experimental installations,
presents a series of new works that extend her interest in the cosmos.
Also,
the exhibition features her signature installation works, which include
sculptures of pixels from low-resolution imaging devices, melting paraffin and
applying it to spaces and structures, as well as new video works derived from
her pixel works.
Kim's
process of making visible the elements that give "context" to the
physical space of "the world," such as light, heat, and gravity,
involves a variety of non-art materials, including natural objects, industrial
materials, and everyday objects.
In order
to combine and deconstruct materials to visualize their inherent properties,
the artist often relies on rigorous performativity, where elaborate
deconstruction reveals the origin of objects, and the accumulation created by
repeated actions actively controls the volume of the resulting work and records
the passage of time.
The
title of the exhibition, "The Apple and The Moon," is a reference to
one of Newton's anecdotes, which suggests that objects with very different
properties are actually connected by the same principle. Just as Newton
observed the small world of apples and conceived of the large world of the
moon, the works in this exhibition move between the micro and macro worlds to
trace and imagine their connections.
