HEE JAE KIM

This exhibition completes the artist’s trilogy project, RGB highway, which explores the emergence of alternative families and their coexistence. It also screens Part 1: HOWLING, which marks the beginning of the artist’s worldview, Part 2: DEATH MATCH, where these elements converge, and the new work Part 3: UNITED WE ARE RICE BALLS DIVIDED WE ARE FRIED RICE ANYWAY IT’S DELICIOUS.

Hee Jae Kim has long been interested in communities. Beginning with a study of kinship-based family groups, Kim’s research has expanded to include alternative communities that transcend traditional family structures. Focusing on symbiotic relationships that cross boundaries, the artist explores new forms of family units, identities, and ways of living that continually emerge and transform without blood ties.

Recent work particularly examines the ‘dual nature of hospitality’, noting how it is closely tied to the existential questions about life and death in communal living. ‘The dual fate of having to constantly open and close the door to others from birth to death reflects the impossibility of true coexistence,’ the artist remarks.