EXHIBITION
ARTIST
- 50,000won, 2025, single-channel video, starex back seat, 130×70×80cm, 4min 54sec.
- Tunnel, 2025, photograph object, 25×10×18 cm.
- Pine tree, 2025, installation, single-channel video, color, sound, 9min(2), photograph 151×44 cm, soil, pine sapling, dog whiskers, flower pot, sand, dog hair.
- Les choses, 2025, 11 objects, 11 blank books, writing instruments, coffee, tea, cup, kettle.
- Depth and surface, 2025, crystal ball with 9 images, Φ20, Φ15(2), Φ13, Φ12, Φ10(2), Φ8, Φ7.
- Jimjjag, 2025, 1 photograph 30×42 cm, 5 photograph object, photographic on wooden pedestals, 42×42×119 cm, 34×34×115 cm, 30×30×113 cm, 38×38×117 cm, 46×46×121 cm.
The artist duo Kiwalim dissects and reconstructs fragments of daily life using diverse media. For this festival, they present an installation that interweaves sound, sculpture, images, video, text, and other elements to deconstruct and reassemble moments from everyday experiences.
As both artistic collaborators and life partners, Kiwalim explores what it means to live ‘well’. Their work emerges from their constant attempts to find balance between artistic labor and economic survival, efficiency and inefficiency, independence and collaboration, belonging and detachment. While each fragment of their work may seem distinct, together they form an intricate web of interconnected experiences essential to living ‘well’. By examining how various elements of life come together in the piece, Kiwalim encourages audiences to reflect on the relationships shape their own existence.
Selected through GIAF25’s open call for artists in the Gangwon region, Kiwalim is a collaborative duo composed of KIM Gihoon (b. 1990) and KIM Dlelim (b. 1990). The name Kiwalim is a portmanteau of two syllables from each of the artists’ names. KIM Gihoon, a photographer and video media artist, explores the fractures within everyday life, questioning their origins while seeking ways to address and reinterpret them. Meanwhile, Dlelim creates performances and installations based on everyday subjects drawn from personal experiences; using narration, sound, video, objects, images, tapestries, and other mediums to transform ordinary moments into layered artistic expressions. For over a decade, Kiwalim has shared not only their artistic journey but also their daily lives, exchanging ideas, inspirations, and the freedom of creation. Their work focuses on everyday subjects that could be found in our living spaces, blurring the line between art and life. Rejecting the elitism and mystification of art, Kiwalim instead pursues a practice that is rooted in reality, making art accessible and integrated into the rhythms of daily existence.
Their major solo exhibitions include Acting! Waves~ And Then, (Chilsung Shipyard, 2024), 128 Flux_Deep Boredom: Swimming (ART SPACE 128, 2023). Their major group exhibitions include bac 24 Sokcho Art Fair (Chilsung Shipyard, 2024), Against the Wind (2023 Chodo Port Art Festa, 2023), Goseong Regional Artists Group Exhibition (Museum Jinburyeong, 2023), Pium Residency Group Exhibition of Seven Korean Artists in France (Square Root Gallery, 2022), Hee:m (HEAR, Strasbourg, France, 2021) and Des-Collages (Le Séchoir, Mulhouse, France, 2021).
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@kimdlelim
@gi.hoon.kim
