Si-Yeon Kim creates fragile stacks of salt or used soap bars as subject in her fanciful photographs. The eventual collapse of these delicate stacks breathes life into the inanimate, giving a sense of mortality connecting between viewer and subject, leading a narrative of uncanny intrusion. Though... Read more
Si-Yeon Kim creates fragile stacks of salt or used soap bars as subject in her fanciful photographs. The eventual collapse of these delicate stacks breathes life into the inanimate, giving a sense of mortality connecting between viewer and subject, leading a narrative of uncanny intrusion. Though the stacks appear fragile, frozen in photography, they keep formed contrary to their weak construction. Kim’s eerie scenes are delicate but alien. Giving life to the mundane removes familiarity and implies assault. suggesting the volatility of nature and self. Kim documents the unreal invasion, where her stacks find vacant housing and take up inhabitancy.
Si-Yeon Kim received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. Her work has been widely exhibited in her native Korea. She has also had pieces in group shows at Art in General and the Queens Museum. She divides her time between New York and Korea.
Eun Young Choi’s illusive design, weaving plant-like growths with lace designs, foods, home decorations and fanciful motifs will encompass the Main Gallery. The artist uses images of domestic and iconic objects to create partial memories. Like the imaginative daydream of a child, curious stories are derived through patterns and images. Her disjointed storytelling is composed of pieces of the everyday life represented in vinyl cutouts, creating wallpaper with innocence and exuberance in the attempt to perpetuate the whimsy and joy of childhood.
Eun Young Choi received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. An artist and a curator, her work has been included in numerous group shows in New York most recently a commissioned work in the show “Back to the Garden: New Vision from Eight Contemporary Artists,” Queens Crossing, New York. Her work was also included the “Pocheon Asia Biennale,” in Korea. She currently lives in Brooklyn.
