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Yeon Jin Kim​

My practice involves old-fashioned techniques put to new uses and combined with digital processes. I hand-draw in graphite, scroll drawings hundreds of feet long, which are then filmed to produce narrative videos. I also construct elaborate three-dimensional models for the same purpose, from cardboard, paper, ink, graphite, watercolor and cast plaster. Often catalyzed by dreams, my videos often issue from a destabilized point of view, established by camera placement in unconventional locations: hidden in a small hand-made train pulled slowly past the drawings and models, or falling-floating above the scenes. My works can be thought of as disjointed fables, which maintain a tension between immanent disclosure and the need for the observer to actively contribute to narrative resolution.

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