ARTIST
NEO KIM
Neo Kim · b. 1990, Seoul
Photographer based in Seoul. Two ongoing series: BEING (2023– ) and SILENCE (2020– ).
- Director, Studio Velvet Underground
- Custodian of the KIM JUNGMAN Archive — approximately 800,000 images
BEING
2023– ongoing
BEING is made by spending a finite material. A flower is placed before a sheet of expired 8×10 colour film and the shutter is left open for one to ten days. In that time the flower declines and the emulsion, already past its life, collapses. The colour shifts and density failures are not corrected; they are the only event this work records.
The film was left unused by a photographer. He was my father.
There were thirty-four sheets. Twenty-eight are spent. Six remain. This work will end not when I decide to stop, but when the material runs out.
- Material
- Expired 8×10 colour film — Kodak Portra 400 (expired 2021) · Fujifilm Velvia 100 (expired 2008)
- Exposure
- Single exposures of one to ten days · f/64
- Archival pigment print on lustre paper
- Dimensions
- 120 × 96 cm (height × width)
- Edition
- Edition of 5 + 1 AP
- Works
- 20 selected works
To exist is to be spent.
Six sheets of film remain.
SILENCE
2020– ongoing
Water moves without rest. Watched long enough, it settles into a single plane. I wanted to see, there, something that does not change.
Was the stillness I saw in the world, or was it the gaze I placed there? I build a form in order to ask. I do not yet know the answer.
- Print on Hanji
- Dimensions
- Variable, work to work
- Edition
- Edition of 5 + 1 AP
- Works
- 13 selected works
Beauty does not ask to be understood.
Selected CV
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