“Tester” Installation view at DOOSAN Gallery ©DOOSAN GalleryFrom June 7 to July 8, DOOSAN Gallery presents TESTER, a solo exhibition by artist Na Kim (b.1979). After receiving the DOOSAN Artist Award in 2013 and holding her solo exhibition Choice Specime at DOOSAN Gallery Seoul the following year, Kim was an artist-in-residence at DOOSAN Residency New York in 2015, where held solo exhibition SET at DOOSAN Gallery New York.
The exhibition was organized to revisit the early artists of DOOSAN Gallery, which has consistently supported young artists, to encourage their activities and support artist’s future endeavors in the art world. The exhibition features 193 archival works and new works by the artist who has been a design collaborator for various publications, including exhibition identities, posters, books, and images selected from her solo exhibition SET in 2015.
The exhibition’s title, TESTER, is a concept that often appears in her life when a product is about to be released, an experiment is nearing completion, or a conclusion is about to be reached. Through this exhibition, the artist takes herself as a Test+er who is constantly experimenting and on the verge of completion looking back at the past through his archives to show that her work is ongoing and still moving forward. The artist’s archive, which is solidly displayed, and the objects and small paintings opposite it show off their own presence and reveal Kim’s artist’s attitude towards the exhibition.
