{"id":55959,"date":"2025-08-18T18:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T09:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kiaf.org\/?post_type=insights&p=55959"},"modified":"2025-08-18T18:24:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T09:24:51","slug":"over-the-words","status":"publish","type":"insights","link":"https:\/\/kiaf.org\/en\/insights\/55959","title":{"rendered":"Over The Words"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seunghyun Kim<\/p>\n

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Installation View (1)<\/em><\/p>\n

LKIF Gallery is pleased to announce Over The Words, a solo exhibition by Seunghyun Kim. This marks the artist\u2019s fourth presentation at the gallery. The exhibition centers on Kim\u2019s ongoing Born Series, which he began in 2011\u2014an essential body of work in his exploration of the conceptual relationship between text and image.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Installation View (2)<\/em><\/p>\n

Begun in 2011 and continuing to the present, the Born Series is an experiment in how language can activate visual memory. Each work uses words to evoke the image of a specific artwork, transforming linguistic fragments into conceptual cues. By collecting and composing these words onto a single canvas, Kim invites viewers into a present visual experience that reawakens past encounters with art.<\/p>\n

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Installation View (3)<\/em><\/p>\n

Each piece in the exhibition operates like a visual quiz: a set of keywords invites the viewer to identify the artworks being referenced. For instance, a triangular canvas placed on the gallery floor reads \u201c79 kilograms of candy\u201d and \u201ctwo clocks,\u201d unmistakably pointing to F\u00e9lix Gonz\u00e1lez-Torres\u2019s Portrait of Ross in L.A. and Perfect Lovers.<\/p>\n

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Installation View (4)<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0In another work, Kim arranges text in the form of a tower, echoing Ugo Rondinone\u2019s iconic stone totems. The background is painted in the warm hues of a desert sunset\u2014reminiscent of the landscapes where Rondinone\u2019s sculptures are often installed\u2014and includes the name of his late partner, John Giorno. Visual, textual, and emotional references converge to signal the presence of Rondinone.<\/p>\n

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Installation View (5)<\/em><\/p>\n

Over The Words may also be viewed as Kim\u2019s own Wunderkammer\u2014a personal cabinet of curiosities\u2014constructed through the Born Series over more than a decade. The collected words, curated through the artist\u2019s perspective, form a personal lexicon that, as the title suggests, extends beyond language. These fragments carry echoes of memory, embedded directly or indirectly within each work. By weaving together language and image, Kim constructs a layered perceptual space. Through the act of viewing, audiences traverse between present experience and remembered encounters\u2014moving between now and then, presence and recollection.<\/p>\n

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Installation View (6)<\/em><\/p>\n

Each work in the Born Series begins with the same phrase: \u201cI was born to decorate your room with \u2013.\u201d Though composed of words drawn from the artist\u2019s personal archive, each work ultimately finds its place in a collector\u2019s space\u2014 created to inhabit and transform that room. For Kim, this exhibition functions not only as his own Wunderkammer, but also as a conceptual extension of the viewers\u2019 spaces: the collectors\u2019 rooms themselves.<\/p>\n

LKIF GALLERY
\n3-11, Samseong-ro 149-gil, Gangnamgu, Seoul 06063+82 2 794 5557<\/p>\n

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