Soohui Kim

We are living in the 21st century. I am also a person living with many human beings.  There was nothing that I could determine on my own, including the environment given to me, talents, face, shape of fingers. With a desire for being a better self in such a given life, I encounter and go through many things while living. Not only my own life but also the lives of the people in the past and the situation that they had to suffer and the lives of future generations are leading to a single flow.

The act of sprinkling paint on a canvas is the present moment in life, the phenomenon of blotting of the dyes is the future, and the permeated stains are the past. Drawings born with these smudges are the traces of my life in the given phenomenon, and even tell the humanity's triumphs and tragedies.
The time and space into which each self is thrown have not been chosen. It is like a trail made throwing dice. Although we have not decided on our own, we have already been thrown into the world. The world in which we are thrown is traces of stain penetrating into works.

A large group of drawings born in such trails is a fused organism made by dismantling and recombining images of the past, present, and future. Being exist is the process of living with the other, making choices while meeting with numerous beings and taking actions.
Each self-grows in contact with various factors (situations, events, experiences, cultures, etc.).
It is not known what constitutes oneself, but various kinds of heterogeneity combine to create a new group. I believe that we are a multifaceted entity, which is influenced by many objects (situations, events, experiences, cultures, etc.) and relocated while living. 

The reconstructed and painted groups are heterogeneous and born between stain and stain, but they are traces of the civilization that lived together in one place on Earth. In the end, the encounter of the thrown beings who are hiding in every corner of the world affects each other and repeats itself at this moment.
Ultimately, I cast a question mark about myself and the existence of people. On February 14, when Voyager 1 turned in the direction of Earth while passing near Pluto under the leadership of Carl Sagan, he pointed to the earth and expressed it as "a pale blue dot." Looking at our home, a small dusty entity in the universe of Infinity, the writings of Carl Sagan give us a very significant insight.

Painting - Oil on Canvas, Mixed Media, etc

2015 Department of Western Painting, School of Art & Design, Suwon University
2017 Department of Painting, General Graduate School, Hongik University