Earth, Water, Fire, Air

Artist: Kim Sooja 
Date: Jan.09-Mar.28 2010
Venue: Atelier Hermes, Seoul
Website: http://www.kimsooja.com/

The solo exhibition of Kim Sooja, an active media and perfor-
mance artist predominantly working in New York, will be held in
Atelier Hermes. In this exhibition, the artist, who has explored
the origin of life through previous works such as Bottari and A
Needle Woman, features a new media work where the organic
relationship between the four elements that she believes make
up the earth¡¯s basic materials, Earth, Water, Fire, Air, are ex-
pressed through natural colors.
Kim had her first solo exhibition in 2000 at Rodin Gallery and
this exhibition, which is her second in Korea after a ten year
gap, screens Earth-Water-Fire-Air, a media work composed of
seven independent channels running video clips of scenes from
the volcanic activities at Lanzarote Island located in the Canary
Islands of Spain and the landscapes of active volcanoes in Pa-
caya, Guatemala. The scarlet lava of active volcanoes, the dar-
k blue waves of the sea, and the crystal clear sky are captur-
ed in the media through the camera and the images portray live
moments with vibrant colors, reminding one of a painterly work. 


_Exhibition view