Kimsooja-Chelsy Berryhill

Kimsooja is a conceptual artist,she was born 1957 from South Korea that uses installation’s of blurr’s in her videos thats between a aesthetics and transendent experience. She got a BFA and MA degree from Hong-lk University, Seoul. She studied painting at Hongik University, she then work with fabric from her sewing series. That made a series of on site specific installations with Korean bedcover cloth bundles, that later become Bottari that gives the idea of travel andconcept of wrapping and unwrapping. Her first video performance was on top of the valleys of Gwangju of South Korea put scattered bedcovers in the valley and wrapping them in bundles. A year after that she returned to the valley and scattered traditional Korean fabrics. She put 2.5 tons of second hand clothing in the valley to dedicate it to the victims of the suppression of a democratic protest in Gwangju. She did video piece shots of places of violance, disrepair or unresolved conflicts.

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