a woman(mother)
Main Gallery Area Artist
twins
Artist Information
Sajik Kim
1981 Born in Kyoto
2005 Graduated from SEIAN UNIVERSITY OF ART AND DESIGN
2014 “Busan Biennale 2014 Special Exhibition Asian Curatorial" (Busan,Korea)
2016 “Art Court Frontier 2016 #14", Art court gallery (Osaka,Japan)
2017 “the Night of a Full Moon, a Man Builds a Grave and a Woman Eats Pinecones.” TOKYO PHOTOGRAPHIC ART MUSEUM (Tokyo,Japan)
2017 “showcase #6 “Storytelling” curated by minoru shimizu” eN arts (Kyoto,Japan)
2017 “Ascending Art Annual Vol.1「Shapes and Figures」”Spiral(Tokyo,Japan),WACOAL STUDYHALL (Kyoto,Japan)
Here are times when I feel that the memories of what my ancestors have experienced are inside me. This is because I feel a deja-vu-like sense when I experience traditions (such as festivals, diet, clothing, sounds, colours, patterns and narratives) of various peoples. A story is born when this strange memory-like sense and, actual memories of my life overlap. I reflect on what my “home” is by confronting these stories.
Selector
The executive director of Higashiyama Artists Placement Service (HAPS)/The artistic director of Vincom Center for Contemporary Art
[Comment by Selector]
Sajik Kim (born in 1981, living in Kyoto) is mainly known for her photographic work. With the fluctuation of her identity as a Korean in Japan as a starting point, Kim’s collection of photos, “Story”, which won the 2016 Canon New Cosmos of Photography Grand Prize, pushed that fluctuation to oscillate even further. Paradoxically, in doing so, taboos which had settled to the bottom were released, and disgrace and holiness were visualized as something fixed, as a unique story—and this is how they are presented. It is neither a search for her roots, nor the mechanics of differentiation surrounding identity or politics. It is another route. Rather than trying to tell her own story, she is only strongly trusting the photographs as a temporary method to mediate the story.