The Living Torso 2016- 2019
The Living Torso 2016- 2019
The Living Torso Project is a series of photographs that focus on drawing and contain the different types of body shapes and sizes in the same posture.
The figures provide both form and content for the matter of gender. The selected body is described as a torso mannequin in the state of decomposition; no arms, legs and head. This means that it is exploring the human body both inner and outer by implementing a fragmented body. Acquiring the specific posture aims to reconstruct a deficient beauty and express an ambiguous boundary as taking a juxtaposition of male/female.
The Living Torso Project is a series of photographs that focus on drawing and contain the different types of body shapes and sizes in the same posture.
The figures provide both form and content for the matter of gender. The selected body is described as a torso mannequin in the state of decomposition; no arms, legs and head. This means that it is exploring the human body both inner and outer by implementing a fragmented body. Acquiring the specific posture aims to reconstruct a deficient beauty and express an ambiguous boundary as taking a juxtaposition of male/female.
ARTWORK DESCRIPTION
[ BODY ] SERIES 2019-2022
Inspired by the human anatomy and psychoanalytic theory, Minju Kim explores desire as a main subject matter alongside the concept of life and death. The dismemberment of the body in contemporary society is the result of modern humans who are living in such oppression, fettered both physically and psychologically, submerged in mortality, forever lost in limbo.
[ CELL ] PROJECT 2022
Acrylic painting series on wood.
Inspired by human anatomy and cell images.
DELUSION SERIES 2020-2021
Abstract painting; A landscape of human anatomy and the concept of desire.
MECHANICAL FLESH 2018-2021
Mechanical Flesh is a series of paintings on canvas. Inspired by anatomy charts, ultrasound pictures and cell images, Minju Kim creates a unique landscape of body where life and death runs in a continuous loop.