A series of Kim Bum-Su’s recent works begins with the gathering of old movie film strips no longer run or disposed of and rearranging them. His works contain movie film strips of stories about people from all walks of life with different histories and backgrounds. These film strips are cut and pasted to project new images and reedited according to his sensibility and ideas. It is a new way of expressing the identity of art deviated from the narrative context of movies and at the same time an experiment and exploration of the potential of new material based on the interaction between object and light.
Kim aims to revive the blunted sensibility of the generation that still remembers Bruce Lee and dreams of a chance for communication with the next generation. He wants to stimulate our intense emotion and discourage our nostalgia from becoming dull by the very excess of emotion, and to revive compassion for and romance of old memories fading away in front of the delicacy of digital culture and the infinite fluidity of the media world. This work utilizes reflected images in film strips and comprises five independent works on different spaces within that become part of the whole.
