Ahrong Kim: Over the Paper Plane | 360 tour et VR

Ahrong Kim’s playful sculptures are a visual diary of her moods. Through her work, she records the many emotional states that she observes within herself. As the artist states, “the figurative form and its multi-colored surfaces reveal the abstracted version of my interiority.” Kim’s inner dialogue is richly explored. Throughout her career, her figures have levitated, stood upside down, have sometimes been headless or bodiless. Her eyes have been covered, her mouth not shown, her head and legs not attached. Yet in her hands, none of that is threatening or disturbing. On the contrary, there is a whimsical tone that brings a lightness to her work. Perhaps this is because of the flowered patterns and colorful geometric prints that suffuse her sculptures. Pattern and color provide a lively and dense visual expression. Flowers and colorful geometric shapes abound. The multi-colored abstract patterns refer to jogakbo, a traditional Korean patchwork made of scraps of fabric, which are stitched together to create a flat seam. As a child Kim watched as her grandmother, a seamstress to the Vice President of South Korea, sewed clothing incorporating that stitch.