KangHee Kim (b. 1991) distils the everyday, refining and transforming it into something altogether different – and utterly fantastical. Kim asks viewers to think beyond the possibilities of the lens and see the world in new ways: where up can be down; left can be right; fences can be portals; and motorways can pave the way to the sun. Bold, blazing blues characterise the featured images as skies take centre stage. Billowing white clouds roll into focus and engulf phone wires, cut through wire, peek through walls and dance across the surface of empty bus seats. Each composition is perfectly framed – creating doorways, borders and hinge points between one space and the next. Kim has worked with the likes of Samsung, The New York Times, The New Yorker, VCSO and ICON Magazine, and has been featured in TIME, Forbes, Ignant, Hunger TV, Aperture, British Journal of Photography, VICE and more. Kim is represented by Benrubi Gallery, New York. kanghee.kim
KangHee Kim, from Street Errands. Courtesy of the artist and Benrubi Gallery, NYC.
KangHee Kim, from Street Errands. Courtesy of the artist and Benrubi Gallery, NYC.
KangHee Kim, from Street Errands. Courtesy of the artist and Benrubi Gallery, NYC.
KangHee Kim, from Street Errands. Courtesy of the artist and Benrubi Gallery, NYC.
KangHee Kim, from Street Errands. Courtesy of the artist and Benrubi Gallery, NYC.
KangHee Kim, from Street Errands. Courtesy of the artist and Benrubi Gallery, NYC.
KangHee Kim, from Street Errands. Courtesy of the artist and Benrubi Gallery, NYC.
KangHee Kim, from Street Errands. Courtesy of the artist and Benrubi Gallery, NYC.
KangHee Kim, from Street Errands. Courtesy of the artist and Benrubi Gallery, NYC.
KangHee Kim, from Street Errands. Courtesy of the artist and Benrubi Gallery, NYC.
Review of Inside Out, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
Castlefield Gallery is showcasing Inside Out, a look at Outsider Artists and their followers. The term ‘outsider art’ was originally used to describe works created outside mainstream artistic boundaries.
Forms of Abstraction
The word ‘abstract’ derives from the Latin abstractus, or ‘drawn away’. Today, lens-based artists continue to push the boundaries of the genre.
Idealised Construction
Influenced by how nature is presented in media, Thomas Wrede’s Real Landscapes reproduces topographies, spanning simulation and reality.
