My work contemplates memory, time and consciousness, and themes of existence—what it means to be human and how we construct our personal truths and realities. Working with digital photography and video, I contextualize still and time-based elements into symbolic conditions that parallel an everyday context. They are concerned with poetic spaces where the metaphysical and spiritual manifest in dialogue with the real. Time and space are considered as quantum spaces that mirror the psyche and soul. Collage sensibilities echo the fragmented intuition of memory and subjectivity themselves, reflecting my perspective on life as a circle of karmic contradiction.
Grace Kim studied at the School of Visual Arts and International Center of Photography in New York, and is currently a PhD candidate in philosophy and media studies at the European Graduate School (Saas-Fée, Switzerland). She was recently recognized with an AHL Foundation Visual Art Award and Foam Talent distinction (2012), and in 2013 has been nominated for the Arcimboldo Prize and shortlisted for the upcoming Hyères Photography Prize. Grace was a resident at the Center for Photography at Woodstock (New York) and GlogauAIR (Berlin). Recent exhibitions include White Box (New York), [.Box] Space (Milan), G.A.S-station (Berlin), Microscope Gallery (New York), and Facade Video Festival (Plovdiv, Bulgaria). She currently lives between Berlin and New York.
FESTIVAL
Hyères, International Festival of Fashion and Photography
April 26 – 29, 2013
Villa Noailles
83400 Hyères
France
