Exhibition Information

			Through her photography, Oksun Kim has been recording people as peripheral beings who are constantly drifting in our society, as well as the landscapes that surround us, all the while remaining faithful to realism and objectivity. Kim’s view to focus on departing and staying; the coexistence of differences; and people straddled on boundaries started with her own experience of migration, as she has been living on Jeju Island for nearly 30 years since her marriage, with constant attempts to better understand the lives of foreigners and strangers all around her. Flatness of Things juxtaposes Kim’s works over the past 20 years, in which she uses an egalitarian gaze to capture portraits of various things existing with differences, beyond the contrast between the subject and object and between culture and nature.
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(Source = Sungkok Museum)