Between Breads and Noodles, Grandfather and I
©Insook Kim
Main Gallery Area Artist
Artist Information
Insook Kim
1978 Born in Osaka
2005 M.A. in Painting, Photography & images, HANSUNG UNIVERSITY, Graduate School of Arts (Seoul,Korea)
2008 Solo exhibition “sweet hours” Gwangju Museum of Art (Gwangju,Korea)
2014 “Go-Betweens The World Seen through Children” MORI ART MUSEUM
2018 “AS_pedia Project Vol. 2 A TALE OF KOREA AND JAPAN” Institute of East Asian Studies IN-EAST (Duisburg,Gernany)
2018 “I know something about love, asian contemporary photography” Tokyo Photographic Art Museum (Tokyo,Japan)
2018 Solo exhibition “Between Breads and Noodles” BMW Photo Space (Busan,Korea)
From 1960 to 1970, as part of Korea's national policy, there are people who emigrated to Germany as coal miners and nurses. KIM Insook sought to reveal how diverse identities exist within German Koreans communities, through the personal histories of several German Koreans families with her a series of photos titled. She also showed in her work about Asians who lives in Europe based on an installation and performance with 40 kinds of Asian instant noodles that are found in Germany.
Selector
Vice Director of Bridgestone Museum of Art, Ishibashi Foundation
[Comment by Selector]
Kim Insook’s outstanding work, “SAISEO: between two Koreas and Japan” (2009-) is a portrait of families in the zainichi (ethnic Koreans living in Japan) community. A number of the subjects are introduced as “I”. The zainichi community has its background in the three countries of North and South Korea and Japan, but Kim’s work vividly presents the diversity of zainichi people living in Japan, a country that tends to think of them as a political entity, grouped under the single label of zainichi. Her work asks: what is real, and what is performed? What is tradition, or culture? What is family? Set in Tokyo, Seoul, and other parts of the world, making free use of Japanese, Hangul, English, and the Kansai dialect, the work she displays is free and cheerful.