Minju Kim

Lives and works in London, UK

Artist statement

Drawing on personal experience and inspired by human anatomy and psychoanalytic theory, I explore desire as a main subject matter alongside of the concept of life and death. In my theory, all things stem from desire and it varies depending on how the person’s desire appears. The human figure is a recurring theme and my obsession of human body started since I was young, as I experienced a rare body condition and medical examination was part of my daily life. Human desire and body is related to birth till death and it is in a continuous loop. The physicality and fragility of human body are the inevitable element of the life and I’m experimenting to embody the sublimation of the desire into perpetuity.

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