Kimsooja's Wind Woman, shot in real time from a
moving car along a hillside road in
Hawaii,
focuses on the elusive horizon and the space where two worlds intersect.
As a
child living in Korea,
Kimsooja's family frequently moved by train from one village
to the next.
Location and dislocation, shifting borderlines, and the uneasy adjustment to
new environments are themes that dominate her art.
Previous videos, such as A
Laundry Woman (2000) and A Needle
Woman (1999)
showed the back of the artist standing motionless while the
earth and humanity
passed by.
 In this work, the artist’s presence is felt, not
seen.
She uses speed to imitate the wind thereby offering
a new experience of
what might otherwise appear
to be a fixed and motionless landscape.
Kimsooja, born in Korea, attended
Ecole Nationale
Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris
and HongIk
University Graduate School
in Seoul.
Kimsooj’s solo
shows include P.S. 1 Contemporary
Art Center, Long Island City, NY; Rodin
Gallery,
Seoul, Korea; ICC (InterCommunication Center), Tokyo, Japan and the Center
for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu, Japan.
Recent group exhibitions include 3rd
Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju, Korea; 5th
Lyon
Biennale of Contemporary Art, Lyon,
France; the 48th Venice Biennale,
Venice and 24th Sao Paulo Biennale,
Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Image credit:
Kimsooja
A Wind
Woman, 2003
Single channel video
2’ 04”, silent
Courtesy of Peter Blum Gallery, New
York, NY.
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