Minju Kim

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“Drawing on personal experience and inspired by human anatomy and psychoanalytic theory, I explore desire as my main subject matter, alongside the concept of life and death.

In my theory, all things stem from desire, and it varies depending on how the person’s desire appears. The human figure is a recurring theme in my work. My obsession with the human body started when I was young, as I experienced a rare body condition and medical examination was part of my daily life.

Human desire and body is related to birth till death, and it is in a continuous loop. The physicality and fragility of the human body is the inevitable element of life. I’m experimenting with embodying the sublimation of the desire into perpetuity.”

Hermetic Vessel I 2020
The dismemberment of the body in contemporary society is the result of modern humans who are living in such oppression, fettered both physically and psychologically, submerged in mortality, forever lost in limbo.
If I stay long enough I’ll adjust to the light 2020
The dismemberment of the body in contemporary society is the result of modern humans who are living in such oppression, fettered both physically and psychologically, submerged in mortality, forever lost in limbo.
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Minju Kim is a South Korean artist based in London. She is an internationally exhibited and award winning artist who is the recipient of the Artrooms Award, London in 2020, Nova Prize, NYC and the 4482 Award, South Korea in 2019 among others.

She graduated MA Visual Arts: Illustration at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London in 2017 with Distinction. Before her master's degree, she studied BA (Hons) Creative Direction for Fashion at London College of Fashion between 2013 and 2015, and graduated with BFA in Printmaking, College of Fine Arts at Hongik University, Seoul, South Korea in 2013.

Italia
Firenze
United Kingdom
Colwyn Bay
England
Hastings
uk
Greater London
United States
Los Angeles

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