Kimsooja
Kimsooja
Kimsooja works in every media, transcending geographical and artistic borders. A roaming artist interested in exile, collective memory and urban space, the self-proclaimed “needle woman” (A Needle Woman, 1999-2001, is one of her signature videos) slips between the stitches and updates the social and cultural fabric of the places she sees.
The South Korean artist earned an international reputation as soon as she finished her studies in painting in Seoul and engraving in Paris. In her early works she used fabric, her favourite material because of its visual possibilities, cultural connotations and traditional roots. In the late 1990s she began using performance and video, documenting spaces and crowds in the middle of which she remains frozen, lying down or seen from behind, combining movement and immobility.
Kimsooja's works were first presented by the Pinault Collection in 2008 during the exhibition “Passage du temps” (“Passage of Time”) at the Tri Postal in Lille.
The South Korean artist earned an international reputation as soon as she finished her studies in painting in Seoul and engraving in Paris. In her early works she used fabric, her favourite material because of its visual possibilities, cultural connotations and traditional roots. In the late 1990s she began using performance and video, documenting spaces and crowds in the middle of which she remains frozen, lying down or seen from behind, combining movement and immobility.
Kimsooja's works were first presented by the Pinault Collection in 2008 during the exhibition “Passage du temps” (“Passage of Time”) at the Tri Postal in Lille.
