Music is a crucial element of the work of Sung Hwan Kim whose long-term collaboration with musician and composer David Michael DiGregorio is also significant. The third one, “Temper Clay”, is focused on Kim’s parent’s situation, but it is interesting also for the soundtrack. While the second film, “Washing Brain and Corn”, is the very strong story of a brain transplant or a metaphor of South Korean political story. The first film, “Dog Video”, appears as some sort of weird competition between masked men, but it is addressed to Kim’s father.
Tate PhotographyĬorn” (2010), and “Temper Clay” (2012) – each presented within distinct and carefully constructed spaces, in a sort of puzzling network made of platforms, mirrors and videos. Sung Hwan Kim, The Tanks Commission, 2012 (installation view) © Sung Hwan Kim, Ph. In the second room we see a further three films – “Dog Video” (2006), “Washing Brain and In the smaller of the two rooms we see “From the Commanding Heights…” (2007), a film which intersperses a story set within the renowned South Korean Hyundai apartment complex in Seoul with that of a rumoured affair between a famous Korean actress and a dictator, illustrated and narrated by Sung Hwan Kim with pen and acetate. Both contain architectural stage-sets that act as platforms for four of the artist’s films. One of Tate Modern’s former oil tanks has been divided into two highly atmospheric rooms by Sung Hwan Kim, where light and screened images bounce off mirrors, reflective material and walls. This Tate Modern commissioned exhibition was conceived to respond to the unique architecture of The Tanks which is an intense space made of thick concrete walls with dark corners. In his works he mingles personal history, fantasy, rumour, politics and culture. Sung Hwan Kim is known for his interdisciplinary work, incorporating installation, video, performance, music, light and drawing. The Korean artist presents the first specially commissioned installation in The Tanks, Tate Modern’s new galleries permanently dedicated to performance and film. “is complex and it leaves a bit baffled, but therefore is interesting”Īn exhibition of Sung Hwan Kim has been opened at The Tanks, Tate Modern. Korean art of Sung Hwan Kim at The Tate Modern Tanks. Sung Hwan Kim, Washing Brain and Corn, 2012 © Sung Hwan Kim
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