Kim, Woong Yong explores the relationship between memory and record derived from and mediated by the body—such as voice and gesture—within a historico-cultural context. In the remnants of ruin and psychological traces, he tracks the immense forces that once shaped images and the moments of decay they caused, reinterpreting them as persistent acts of transformation and combination to weave into an organic story that generates new relations. To achieve this, he evokes emotions found in the struggle and frustration left as bodily residues, the psychological traces of ruins, and the anxieties and desires, translating across media such as video, performance, and soundtracks, constructing them allegorically through myths, symbols.
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ABSTRACTION AND EMPIRICAL FIGURE
We live our lives made up of a great quantity of isolated instants. So as to be lost at the heart of a multitude of things. (From the Double Dream of Spring, 1970.)
