Ji Seon Kim, We listened to the rain, and We sang, 2023, Acrylic, oil and oil stick on canvas, 162.2x130.3cm ©DrawingRoomDrwaingRoom presents Ji Seon Kim’s solo exhibition “we sang a song together”, on view through March 30.
Kim’s previous work has been based on synaesthetic experiences of specific places or scenes. In order to recall a sense of place, the artist records the sounds of a particular space or documents it on video. However, rather than reproducing the physicality of the collected footage on canvas, she focuses on the sensations it evokes.
In her new work, to filter her senses more clearly, she leaves a larger time gap than before between the time she experiences a scene and the moment she picks up a brush in the studio. In order to focus on the embodied sensations that remain even when the visual intervention of the footage is removed, Kim doesn’t compose from a sketch, but rather improvise images based on the sensations that emerge.
In this exhibition at the DrawingRoom, Kim presents a body of work that focuses on the process by which memories are conjured and mixed through accidental forms. Starting with the colors that come to mind when recalling a landscape, the paintings are created by tracing the memories evoked by the process of spilling and mixing paint on a flat surface.
Kim studied painting at the Slade School of Art, University of London. Her major solo exhibitions include “Celsius Space°C: The Temperature of Unknown Place” (Cheongju Creative Art Studio, Cheongju, 2016), “Repeating, Rhythm, Difference” (Daegu Art Factory, Daegu, 2018), “White Wind and Brighter Shadows” (SongEun Art Space, Seoul, 2021), and “Stay Awhile” (boan1942, Seoul, 2022). She has also participated in group exhibitions at various institutions including White Block Cheonan Residency, Perigee Gallery, Wooyang Museum of Contemporary Art, and SongEun Art Space. Her works are in the collections of the MMCA Art Bank, Cheonan City Hall, and SONGEUN.
