Sora Kim b. 1965

EDUCATION:

Seoul National University , Seoul , South Korea ; Ecole nationale superieure des beaux-arts , France

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

GROUP - 2006 A Tale of Two Cities , Busan Biennale 2006, Busan, South Korea; 2005 Hermes Korea Award , Art Sonje Center, Seoul, South Korea ; Art Circus-Jumping from Ordinary, International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Yokohama, Japan; Seoul-Until Now! , Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen , Denmark; Secret Beyond the Door, Korean Pavilion, 51 st Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy; 2004 Cosmo Vitale , REDCAT Gallery, Los Angeles, USA; Z.O.U. Zona D'Urgenza , SENSI Contemporanei, Villa Zerbi, Reggio Calabria, Italy; Antarctica , Art Sonje Center, Seoul, South Korea; 2003 Zone of Urgency, Dreams and Conflicts , 50 th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy; Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale , Niigata, Japan; Everyday: Contemporary Art from Japan, China, Korea and Thailand , Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Denmark; 2002 Archivio Attivo , Centro Per L'Arte Contemporanea Carbognano, Carbognano, Italy; Under Construction , Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; Pause : Gwangju Biennale 2002, Gwangju Metropolitan Museum of Arts, Gwangju, South Korea; BLINK , Artsonje Center, Seoul, South Korea; Fantasia , East Modern Art Center, Beijing, China; ASIANVIBE , Espai d'Art Contemporani de Castello, Spain;

Existing materials, objects, situations and environments are tools and resources for Sora Kim, creating works that are ephemeral, yet designed to be experienced and changed by the public, all the while turning into something quite different during this process.

It is said that a person's book collection reflects the intelligence and taste of that person. Following this train of thought to a larger context, a library belonging to an institution would then reflect the role, responsibilities, as well as past and future directions of that institution. If we look in a bit more detail i.e. subject matters, we also see that libraries reflect the importance the society places on the subject. In case of Asia House, the library has Asia-related cultural books written in English, where Asia here refers to countries in Asia and Indian subcontinent. When Sora Kim first went through the library within Asia House, she felt that the titles of the books reflected the sensibility and level of empathy and knowledge which the UK in general had on Asia as a whole, and decided to use the titles of the books for her new work in this exhibition.

The titles are re-used to create a new poem, which will interpreted and performed interpreted by various singers from Korea and London, in the style favored by them, including hip-hop, traditional Korean, classical. London street baskers will also be invited to take part in this work, making this\ work something to be experienced in many different levels.

Poem for RUNWAY, or two names (2006)
Poetry/music installation
Courtesy of the artist