Kajin Kim

As the pandemic continues, a certain sense of absence and isolation from others has been permeating my life. I want to create placeholders that serve as invitations for someone who is not here but is around somewhere else. Like a chair. Chairs carry traces of the bodies that have sat on them, but they are also invitations to sit. They create places for propositional bodies - even if no one is here, the body is expected and implied.

I feel like we exist as fragments. Different parts of us exist on different planes. Although the fragments are not physically on the same plane, I want to make contact without contact, by overlapping the layers where each fragment exists. This overlap of images creates an imaginary coexistence of here and there or of different times that are far apart - each one connected with the others, but also separate, on its own terms.

The components installed on and inside the wall are like apertures or windows. We’re usually accustomed to see walls as barriers blocking us from experiencing that other space behind the walls. By making apertures, I want to dismantle the wholeness of the physical barriers. I want to make the walls a meeting point, where many layers are folded and coexist.

Manifestations of alignment between separate layers is a continuous thread throughout Sweet Spot. In both virtual and physical space, we yearn for this sweet spot of connection and clarity, without always being able to find it.