Exhibition Information

Exhibition view

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The Pirate Ship
2019 Oil and oil pastel on canvas
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Figure 5
2022 Oil on linen
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Sailors in the Moonlight
2020-2021 Oil on canvas
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			Gallery EM presents ‘Ghost in the Shell’ with artists Kajin Kim, Haeji Min, Joseph Choï and John Denniston. The four artists have a common approach of ‘experimenting in reconstructing the body’. They compose their own re-interpretation of the body through deconstruction, reiteration, exaggeration and distortion from its conventional forms.


I. The lack and desire of contact: separation and allowance

Kajin Kim visually realizes bodily separation between the self and the outside world as both a border and connection. The lack of physical contact in the daily life of a digital society causes isolation and emptiness. Contact, or the touching of one surface and another surface, defines the borders between the self and the outside world. This contact is also how we sense connection with other existences. The artist uses transparent materials and light that penetrates beyond, as a tool to express the sensation of contact.

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Daye Shin
EM

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