 KimsoojaKimsooja came to international fame in the 1990s following a P.S.1 residency in New York, during which she produced one of her most famous works, Bottari Truck, a video subsequently shown in numerous exhibitions and biennales. Bottari Truck featured a truck loaded with “bottari,” the Korean word for bundle, and traveled throughout Korea for 11 days. The bundles were made of bed covers, an item that touches the key moments of our lives – from birth and marriage to sickness and death. Needle Woman, a video performance that shows the back of the artist as she stands in the middle of landmark avenues in cities around the world, further developed the concept of sewing towards abstraction bringing together people, cultures and civilizations. In a subtle way Kimsooja (b. 1957 in Korea), who works primarily in video, performance, installation and photography, has evolved into a premier artist in her discipline, addressing sensitive issues like migration, integration and poverty. Kimsooja has lived in New York since 1998. Her work explores issues of the displaced self. She engages in a conceptual, logical and structural investigation of performance through an immobility that inverts the notion of the artist as the predominant actor. Besides allowing us to participate in their creator’s journey, Kimsooja's work is an invitation to question our existence, and the major challenges we face.
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Portrait of Kimsooja |
