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.
The 1980s were a turbulent time in Britain; this decade is the focus of The Place is Here, an exhibition set between the South London Gallery and MIMA.
Marco Sanges, The Indecent Eye, Hay Hill Gallery, London
The photography of Marco Sanges creates dramatic works peopled by uncanny, larger than life characters. His untidy troupe of old money and sugar daddies wear their powdered wigs and brylcremed toupees at jaunty angles.
Ethereal Moments
Berndnaut Smilde creates clouds indoors. They are made using smoke and water vapour and exist for a very short period of time – just 10 seconds.
