Joeun Kim Aatchim
Minimally Invasive (최소침습)
June 20 — August 3, 2024
Seoul
Gladstone presents Minimally Invasive (최소침습), its first exhibition with Joeun Kim Aatchim, in Seoul. The exhibition debuts new paintings and drawings on silk; a site-specific audio installation; and sculptures. These artworks represent a continuation of Aatchim’s rigorous attempt to render visible her memories in their multilayered complexity–memories of pain, of care, and of love, grounded in the artist’s personal history. Making reference to the idea of a memory palace–an imagined structure that serves as a mnemonic aid and as a home for one’s memories–the artist uses the resources of her multidisciplinary practice to construct a physical and metaphysical space for remembrance. In this space, Aatchim rejects linear narrative in favor of capturing how memory, reality, and representation exist simultaneously, in emotionally charged interplay.

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