Bomin Kim

Installation View (1)

Kim Bomin’s paintings begin with the unsaid, the unfinished. Some relationships are forgotten, some emotions remain unresolved, lingering quietly in the folds of memory. Her work poses a subtle question: have these things truly disappeared, or do they exist more heavily because they are gone?

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Her solo exhibition, 〈The Weight of What Has Vanished〉, is a space of painterly reflection that quietly observes the residues of memory, emotion, and relationship. The canvas unfolds as a minimal and expansive stage—geometric, directionless, unmoored in time or place—where symbolic figures of people, animals, plants, and objects appear. These entities do not clearly interact, yet they coexist in a quiet tension, like scattered fragments of recollection. 

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Kim juxtaposes precise, realistic renderings with flat, muted color fields to blur the boundary between presence and absence, fiction and reality. This is not merely an aesthetic decision, but a visual metaphor for the fluidity of memory, the instability of feeling, and the fragile connections we make with others. Her anonymous figures may reflect the viewer’s inner portrait, while objects such as balloons, penguins, and cacti become metaphors for softness, volatility, and resistance.

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〈The Weight of What Has Vanished〉 offers no linear narrative. Instead, it speaks through the in-between—words never said, feelings left unresolved, and time that has passed yet remains palpable. Through this, Kim suggests that what is no longer visible may, in fact, carry the greatest weight in our lives. 

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Rather than enclosing the meaning of her work, Kim leaves traces—visually and linguistically—as invitations. The meaning of the work unfolds not when the painting is completed, but when it is received, interpreted, and lived through by others. In this way, her practice becomes a gentle act of offering and empathy, allowing us to project ourselves into her work and, perhaps, into one another.

Gallery Da Sun
44-18, Yangjimaeul 4-ro, Gwacheon-si, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea
02-502-6535

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