Minjee (Minji) Kim

Lives and works in New York, NY

Artist statement

I construct temporary, foldable spaces where objects, images, and viewers coexist without fully coinciding. In my work, space is not just a background but a surface that continuously shifts with perception and viewpoint. Moving between painting and installation, images extend into space, overlap with structures, and at times interrupt the viewer’s field of vision. These conditions are not meant to produce instability, but to reveal that alignment can never be complete and that all access is necessarily partial. I call this condition the “Skew Universe”: a state in which different elements continually approach one another without fully meeting. Forms, images, and materials are placed together, yet none of them can be fully read or understood on their own. They are read across painting and floor pieces, as images extend beyond the canvas and reappear through repeated shapes and colors between works. This is a way to explore the limits of how we perceive. The instability of these relationships is present between the self and the world, between people, and in how humans and non-human animals, plants, and essences encounter each other. Rather than resolving these gaps, I construct situations in which they can be experienced. These limits in relation are not something to be resolved, but describe how we experience the world and our limited access to other forms of consciousness.

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