Sensory Utopia: Between Nearness and Distance

EVENT DESCRIPTION

The Stroll Gallery by Stella A&C, a Hong Kong-based venue that has been introducing the works of Korean artists, is currently hosting Kajin Kim’s solo exhibition <Sensory Utopia: Between Nearness and Distance>. This exhibition marks Kim’s first solo show in Hong Kong and showcases her unique multimedia works that explore the desire for communication and connection among isolated individuals in contemporary society.

The artist notes that while technological advancements have facilitated more convenient and unconstrained interpersonal connections, they have also led to extreme separation and disconnection in our direct, physical interactions. For Kim, this human deficiency translates into a longing for reaching mutual boundaries – ‘touch’. The ‘skin membrane’ then emerges as a boundary dividing the interior and exterior of the body, as well as a device representing the scope of the self.

Kim gives visual and spatial form to this concept of contact. She casts organic-looking images surrounded by membranes in translucent silicone or transfers them onto resin surfaces, installs them on thermoformed transparent acrylic. The light designed to penetrate these transparent surfaces creates and connects the dual spaces of the interior and exterior, penetrating and connecting to form a new sense of space.

The Stroll Gallery aims to capture the various movements arising from the desire for connection among individuals in modern society and the efforts to fulfill that need. “We hope that visitors will experience new emotional connections through the exhibition and seek answers to existential questions,” the gallery stated.