Minyoung Kim
Night Farewell, 2025
Pencil on paper (framed)
30 x 30 cm
Signed by the artist
Taymour Grahne Projects
Stand W4
Stand W4
£ 2,150.00
One of Minyoung Kim’s greatest strengths lies in her ability to craft narratives – painting unique stories that unfold over time. In each painting, Kim plays with a myriad of...
One of Minyoung Kim’s greatest strengths lies in her ability to craft narratives – painting unique stories that unfold over time. In each painting, Kim plays with a myriad of recurring emblems and motifs that explore the uncertainty of emotional experience and draw the viewer in to a world of playful possibility.
We are confronted with inanimate objects humanised with inquisitive eyes and fruits illustrated with cartoon faces. These interventions explore ideas around the surreal and uncanny – themes that underline Kim’s larger practice. Cats feature throughout the works and are often used to subvert or accelerate dangerous, precarious situations whether it is a cat valiantly holding on to a palm tree in a storm, or haunting feline eyes reflecting on a sharp knife’s edge. The cats tap into something very human in us, our anxieties, fears and hopes. By placing them in a fictitious world, Kim suggests there are real-life consequences.
We are confronted with inanimate objects humanised with inquisitive eyes and fruits illustrated with cartoon faces. These interventions explore ideas around the surreal and uncanny – themes that underline Kim’s larger practice. Cats feature throughout the works and are often used to subvert or accelerate dangerous, precarious situations whether it is a cat valiantly holding on to a palm tree in a storm, or haunting feline eyes reflecting on a sharp knife’s edge. The cats tap into something very human in us, our anxieties, fears and hopes. By placing them in a fictitious world, Kim suggests there are real-life consequences.