a Piece of Mind - Story #3 Sculpture

Julia Hyeawon Kim mainly focuses on materiality in her work to express in terms of feminine ideas and emotions. She uses various materials that have strong and wild characteristics such as metals, woods and marbles while using soft and weak materials such as fabrics, crank, water and coconut oil at the same moment. The process of her work starts with burning and smoking these materials. She also uses videos projecting onto the sculptures and a canvas to maximise the effects. Through the contrast of materiality, she does want viewers to see females’ strengths on the one hand, and weakness from their disregarded/unwatched lives on the other hand. Ultimately, she aims to expose women’s rights and interests from her work. Julia Hyeawon Kim was born in 1985 in Seoul, South Korea. She lives and works in Seoul and London.