GIMHONGSOK

Gimhongsok’s (b. 1964) work is devoted to exploring the arbitrary nature in the way humans assign value to an object. What determines implicit value? Who is drawing the lines, and how is the scale weighed? These are all questions raised by Gimhongsok’s work. He attempts to humanise artificial conceptions while highlighting the inequities, politically-driven, and superficial opinions that hold dominion over the public sphere.

Born in Seoul in 1964, Gimhongsok graduated from Düsseldorf Kunst Akademie in Germany after obtaining his BA in Fine Arts at Seoul National University. His recent solo exhibitions include Xijing Is Not Xijing, Therefore Xijing Is Xijing at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (2016), World of Xijing at National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul (2015), Blue Hours at Kukje Gallery, Seoul (2014), Good Labor Bad Art at PLATEAU, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul (2013), Ordinary Strangers at Artsonje Center, Seoul (2011), and as part of his Xijing Men collective he has presented I Love Xijing-Xijing School at Spenser Museum of Art at the University of Kansas (2013), and Xijing at the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Venice (2011).

Courtesy Tina Kim Gallery