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Artist
Kimsooja
b. 1957, Daegu, South Korea · South Korean · Based in Seoul, South Korea & Paris, France
- Hongik University
- Installation
- Video
- Performance
- Sculpture
Kimsooja uses bottari bundles, textiles, video and architectural installations to examine migration, labor, identity and stillness. Her practice often places the artist’s body or traditional Korean fabrics into public circulation without theatrical action.
Performance; installation; video; textile
Gallery Representation
DOCUMENTATION
EXHIBITION IMAGES via Contemporary Art Library ↗Artist Films
Kimsooja in "Systems" - Season 5 - "Art in the Twenty-First Century" | Art21
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Major Works
- 1999–2001A Needle Woman
- 1997Bottari Truck—Migrateurs
- 2000A Laundry Woman—Yamuna River, India
- 2006To Breathe—A Mirror Woman
- 1990s onwardBottari
- 1997Cities on the Move—2727 Kilometers Bottari Truck
- 2003A Mirror Woman: The Ground of Nowhere
- 2016Archive of Mind
- 2013To Breathe
- 1990s onwardDeductive Object
Museums & Public Collections
Interviews & Writing
- Museum-quality video search →RESEARCH QUEUEvideo
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