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Kim Hee-seon's recent work, Crystal Seeing, a video installation made of nine crystal balls and featuring four people, is based documentary interviews she conducted with several of her acquaintances. This work is about the moments when one feels happiness in life. In her previous work as well, Kim has consistently based her work on her thoughts about various phenomenon derived from human beings. In her recent work, she makes distinctive attempts to blend reality with fiction, to break down the lines between one's private life and lives of others, to expand and fabricate ordinary incidents, and to generate a universal communion that brings the valuable memories of others to us.
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James Elkins explains in his book, Pictures and Tears, when asked why people have cried in front of pictures, it is not merely because they were touched or overwhelmed by them, but they reply that it is because they were unable to endure an indescribable and complex emotional state. Thinking about the memories held beneath the figure in her video with tears streaming down his or her face, who at the same time shows a strange, enraptured look, we perhaps catch a glimpse of the relationship between these dramatic life scenes and the intense pain that can be associated with them. Raising again the long-cherished question concerning the connection between life and art, Kim Hee-seon asserts that the pleasure of recalling indescribably happy memories can be identical with the joy of experiencing great art.
Curated by Choi Houng-cheol, Curator of Seoul Museum of Art
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