Kim crosses the boundaries that divide diverse media, such as sculpture, painting, installation, and performance, to represent the conflations of different elements in different times and spaces and the tension created between these conflicts visually. In this biennale, the artist illustrates the way people understand the concept of a “good life’ through the work titled Without the Sea. The work displayed in the lobby of the Seoul Museum of Art Seosomun Main Building encourages the audience, who is located in the serial time of the past-present-future, to share artistic imaginations about the past and the future. Sangdon Kim’s new work Without the Sea functions as a platform upon which we can discuss the essence of human lives, as opposed to their fragmentary elements. Undertaking this role of symbolic measurement, the work at the entrance of the museum meets the audiences both inside and outside of the biennial.
