Artists
The artists supply ideas and sketches for a work of art. The companies provide production facilities and expertise. Together they create works of art to be exhibited at one of the exhibition venues associated with Socle du Monde.
KimsoojaKimsooja was born in Taegu in South Korea. Her primary mediums are video and installation art. Often her starting point is the role of women in society. She stages the roles of women and shows it to the audience seen through various different meditative states of mind. In her videos she uses herself as the protagonist and we experience the piece and the world she has created seen through the eyes of her.
Work for the Biennale Kimsooja is presented at the Socle du Monde biennial as a “special project”. The artist describes the work as an “archaeological project that spans cultures”. As part of a large-scale video project she will work with the relationship between textile work (which is commonly considered feminine), architecture (which is commonly considered masculine), and landscape within various cultures on all continents. For the Socle du Monde exhibition she will visit Peru and an indigenous people living on an island in Lake Titicaca. The title of this year’s biennial, Between Cultures, makes the event a natural stopping point for Kimsooja’s boundary-crossing, multicultural project.
Artist statement "Thread Routes
This is an on going project that has wide spectrum of my visual experiences and perception of the world that have been particularly represented in european lace making culture and its architectures focusing to few european cities, weaving and garment culture of Miao minority in Sichuan in China, textile and clay architecture of Raj! akstan area in india, clay architectures and weaving culture in Mali, including middle eastern cities, as well as Indian American weaving cultures and American nature.
While making this nondescriptive and unnarrative documentary film searching for the traces of threads through my gaze, I realize the Thread Routes series as a parallel performances of needle work I've done since early 80's and its evolution of the series into 'A Needle Woman' performances (1999 on-) which took places around the world and as an encyclopedia of A Needle and A Thread."
- Oct 20, 2010, Kimsooja -
Thread Routes < Peru >
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CooperationSpecial project
Info
Born: 1957, Taegu, Korea.
Nationality: Korean
Education: 1984 Painting Dept. of Hong-IK University Graduate School, Seoul
ExhibitionsSelected exhibitions:
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