ARTCaffè 093

February 21, 2025

Yunim

Kim

Chris

Ro

AFTERNOON&MORNING

About The Guests

Yunim Kim is an artist, educator and counselor. Born in Gwangju in 1977, she is currently based in Seoul. With a multifarious background combining traditional Korean crafts, calligraphy, flower arrangement, tea ceremony and natural dying, she has long felt a strong pull towards aesthetics found in Asia. She has long been fascinated by concepts that are invisible, or disappearing and the points of contact and layering between time, space and memory. Her work is often composed of simple masses centered within blank spaces in combination with flat or three-dimensional lines. Her work has been shown at Ranee & Company (2023), Space B-E (2022), Gallery Palais de Seoul (2021), xxpress (2021), Drawing Space Salgu (2019) and 17717 (2019).
Chris Ro (b.1976) is an artist who is fascinated by non-visual themes and concepts. His projects have examined concepts that are often more felt than seen. Themes like humor, sound, geomancy, thieves and space are recurring elements in his project work. These projects can sometimes be characterized for their kinetic, spatial, poetic and atmospheric properties. Coming from both an architectural and graphic background, his work mixes components of printing, installation, animation, writing and traditional painting and drawing. He currently teaches at Hongik University. He has a mixed background of research at institutions like UC Berkeley, the Rhode Island School of Design and Seoul National University. His work has been exhibited all over the world and is part of the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Die Neue Sammlung, the Seoul National University Museum of Art, Hongik University Museum of Art, Platform-L Contemporary Art Center and the National Hangeul Museum.

About The Talk

Yunim Kim and Chris Ro are both wife and husband as well as afternoon and morning. They share a studio together as well as a particular way of working and viewing that has become intertwined as sometimes life does. Their shared aesthetics and ways of seeing exist in concepts that surround layering, aging, imperfection and the impossible to describe things in life that we cannot see. The things that sometimes disappear or the things that sometimes are more felt than seen.

Experience in person @ ARTCAFFE living room or by Zoom

Friday, February 21st

In person & online meeting starting time: 10:30 AM, Seoul time
Talk starting time: 11:00 AM, Seoul time

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Meeting ID: 522 298 6765
Passcode: AC$2025

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