Cutting Mushrooms

Kidows Kim’s practice is a crossover between writing and drawing. For  several years now, he has been adding to his dictionary of fan-tastical  creatures: a collection of monsters, memories and familiar situations.  The artist draws his conception of monstrosity – the cen-tral them of  his current work – from the transfiguration of reality and fiction.  Monsters are a metaphor for confronting reality, in particular questions  of hierarchy, domination, and standards. In line with this angle, the  solo Cutting Mushrooms explores a thwarted bodily  transformation, constantly reshaped by the violence of its hospital  surroundings. Via perpetual movement and the distortion of what is  normal for the body, voice, sound and language, the artist brings about  the emergence of a sort of inconstant monstrosity. Is engaging  transformation a way of existing? Of protecting oneself, communicating  or being included?  Is it an adaptation and/or a resistance? Giving body  to an ambiguous and elusive figure, Kidows Kim shows his current  transformation by going back over his past transformations.

Source: programme of the CND