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Space in
the Glass

“What’s left is a certain stage, where reality and fabrication intersect.”

Yongmin Kim — Space in the Glass

Format
Round frame · Archival pigment print on Artsilk
Exhibited
Solo show ‘Space in the Glass’, Gallery Kwanhoon, 2010 · SeMA Emerging Artists Support
A man measuring the earth with stringThe man who measured the earth Figures blurred in a sandstormThe wind is wearing their faces A table under a canopy in the desertSit down, nobody is late here People dancing on a cliffStill dancing when we left A white water towerA tower holding its breath A lone gate in the desert and a man walking past itNobody built the rest A figure on a dune pointing somewhere beyond the circleOver there, he says Two children walking away across the desertDon't follow, they know the way Laborers before a granaryThey counted us first A lone film light on a desert dune, lighting the shrubsThe sun was hired for the night A freight train crossing the desertLet it pass, it is not for us Crumbling earthen ruins under a black skyThey took the roof with them An animal in a forest clearingGrass does not ask its name A bed and furniture in the desertSomebody made the bed A groom with his cart before ruinsAsk the horse, not the man Two men holding a spear and a shield stand on a dune by the seaNobody told them the war was over People carrying furniture into the desertHeavier than it looks A desert camp under a hazy sky; a single fire burns beside camels and a tentWait, they are still setting the table A boy falling after kicking a ball high above the desertThe ball has not come down yet Nomads in campfire smoke at nightSmoke is the night's first word A circular photograph intact only in its upper half; below, the data breaks into bands of colourHalf of it stayed

Art direction — small o — album artwork

“What’s left is a certain stage, where reality and fabrication intersect.”

Yongmin Kim — Space in the Glass

Format
Round frame · Archival pigment print on Artsilk
Exhibited
Solo show ‘Space in the Glass’, Gallery Kwanhoon, 2010 · SeMA Emerging Artists Support

Texts on this series

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Pyungjong Park Stripping ‘Foreignness’ from the Foreign World Yongmin Kim Space in the Glass Hwaja Kim Space in the Glass — exhibition review E-sun Park Kwang Mo’s Space in the Glass Artist’s note Glass Marble and Dust Line These are origins, not ruins.