Exhibition Information

2011 50 x 50 cm

2013 66.5 x 50 cm

2012 80 x 100 cm

2013 100 x 133 cm

			‘The Night Watch’ exhibition by Shinwook Kim will be held from October 21st to December 5th, 2020.

After graduating from Goldsmiths, University of London and the Royal College of Art, the artist has experienced various forms of discrimination while working in Europe for a long time. Therefore, a journey for taking pictures became increasingly remote, leading to a forest of the night in which nothing can be seen.

The darkness of the night forest and border areas reminded him of the days when the artist was on night duty during his military service.

Shinwook Kim, who was on night watch after a hard day’s work, fell over a big tree while walking half asleep and experienced an ‘illusion’ that mistook him for a person. This memory became the idea for the ‘The Night Watch’ series.

The artist uses long exposure and light painting techniques to capture the night. It is reminiscent of the artist painting with light in front of the camera in extreme darkness. The image that the writer wants to represent is repeatedly revealed and concealed by these gestures, like a painting that changes according to the painter’s brush strokes.

His work has a mystical colour given off by either moonlight or by the lights of the village from afar, and the boundary between darkness and light revealed by artificial light is dreamlike as if walking in a dream. On the contrary, the tension of the border and the night forest works as a device to reveal the artist’s contrasting emotions.

‘The Night Watch’ is the first series to debut in Korea, including ‘Matley Wood, 2012’, a British Institution Award-winning work awarded by the Royal Academy of Art in the UK. The series also includes award winners such as ‘New Forest, 2012’, which received the Warden’s Award by University of London and ‘Lyndhurst, 2012’, which received Italy’s International Arte Laguna. ‘The Night Watch’ series is the first series to show the artist’s interest in ‘border’. This series represents Shinwook Kim and is meaningful in that it leads to series such as ‘Night Spotting’ (2015- 2018) and ‘Unnamed Land: AirPort City’ (2015- 2020).