Kimsooja at Magasin 3

Kimsooja
September 30 – December 17
Curators: David Neuman and Tessa Praun

Kimsooja works with traditional Korean textiles and second-hand clothes. She spreads, folds, ties and hangs bed sheets full of history and cultural symbolism. The sheets bear signs of life – we are born, sleep, love, dream, suffer and die on sheets. Visitors can wander among the rows of bedclothes in the installation "A Laundry Woman", 2006, filling the entire ground floor. Kimsooja has hung colorful sheets that turn into swaying pictorial panels in a light draft.

"A Laundry Woman", 2006
Photo: Martin Runeborg

In another room she has parked a truck from 1938 with the back piled with ‘bottaris’ – cloth bundles used for storing personal belongings. In addition to the two major installations the exhibition featured several of her video works. Kimsooja is always present in them, leading us into the works and into her art. In one of them "Cities on the Move – 2727 Kilometers Bottari Truck", 1997, a truck loaded with bottaris reaccures. Sitting on the pile of bundles the artist travels to all the places in Korea where she has lived and which hold memories for her.

"Bottari Truck", 2005
Photo: Martin Runeborg

Kimsooja combines elements from Korean culture with contemporary artistic expressions, to create colorful installations and poetic performance-based video works. The exhibition at Magasin 3 was her first solo exhibition in the Nordic region, and presented works ranging from the mid-1990s to today.

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