Jinyoung Kim
Genealogy of Stationary Objects
April 7–May 16, 2014
Vernissage: Thursday, April 10, 5 – 7pm
(york corridor vitrines)
Jinyoung Kim, Objects on the Rooftop, 2013- 2014
Genealogy of Stationary Objects presents photographic and video works of the artist Jinyoung Kim, that investigate “house” as a conceptual entity, a place of memory that involves phenomenological experience beyond its physical and architectural qualities. Interested in investigating attachment to one’s origin, the artist works with the notion of home and its psychological implications associated with the physical space. Standing between the past and present, the project weaves through the history of the place by looking into the objects as means to represent its temporal and spatial condition. The objects narrate the past, while the artist’s implied presence and her movements through space create a degree of tension and ambiguity in respect to her identity.
Bio
Jinyoung Kim is a visual artist based in Montreal. She holds a BFA from OCAD University in Toronto and received her MFA from Concordia University. She has exhibited her work in Toronto and Montreal and recently showed at Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, at Lilian Rodriguez and at Espace Cercle Carré. Kim was shortlisted for the 2014 Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Award in Contemporary Art and has received the Roloff Benny Foundation Fellowship in Photography.
Statement
Jinyoung Kim renders personal narratives into poetic vision forming symbolic and metaphoric visual condensations. Her images and video resonate with everyday experiences, imbuing them with meaning through appropriating it into different contexts and staging gestures in front of the camera. Her work examines conditions of liminal self-identity and displacement; frequently using herself as a performer in her work.
