Representative work by Gimhongsok
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Artist

Gimhongsok

b. 1964, Seoul, South Korea · Based in Seoul, South Korea

  • Seoul National University, Seoul
  • Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany
  • Sculpture
  • Installation
  • Performance
  • Video

Gimhongsok employs satire, appropriation, and paradoxical fables to critique political authority, cultural translation, and post-colonial capitalism. Renowned for sculptures mimicking crumpled garbage bags or balloon dogs cast in heavy stainless steel and painted in pastel tones, Gimhongsok exposes the arbitrary nature of aesthetic valuation.

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