GB Artist Focus
<GB Artist Focus> offers opportunity to meet artists in person, hear their stories, and gain deeper insight into their creative worlds. The program is organized in collaboration with cultural and artistic spaces in Gwangju. The eighth featured artist, Kim Seola, creates work that evokes memories of her hometown, lost to the construction of a large chemical complex, through small beings like insects, ash, and microorganisms. Residing in various cities, she focuses on the small beings left behind even after everyone has left, and on fragile entities that have shed their original bodies.
A more in-depth conversation about Kims’s artistic attitude and practice will unfold in dialogue with curator Kim Sungwoo.
[Program Information]
- Date & Time: October 17 (Fri) 18:00 PM - 20:00 PM
- Venue: Horanggasy Creative Studio (22, Jejung-ro 47beon-gil, Nam-gu, Gwangju)
[About the Artist]
Kim Seola studied Fine Arts at Chonnam National University and earned her Master's degree in Fine Arts at Maharaja Sayajirao University of the Arts in Baroda, India. She has worked across various creative hubs, including SAW Residency in Ottawa, Canada (2024), Gwangju ACC Creative Space Network Residency (2018), and Bank Art Studio NYK Artist Residency in Yokohama (2017). She has held seven solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group exhibitions in Gwangju, Jeonnam, Japan, and India.
Through paper, Kim witness to the instability of an era that cannot be put into words, and deals with the memory of beings who, having lost their place in life, return by transforming their bodies.
Tear Drops, the Arid Landscape, Acrylic on paper, 280cm x 260cm, 2017
Metaphor, The Messenger of Death, Ink on silk, 200cm x 440cm, 2019 (1)
Nine Dark Openings, Rumor, Ink on paper, 150cm x 150cm, 2020 Commissioned by Asia Culture Center
