Artist, Mikyung Kim creates a space of layers based on the attachment to and interpretation of her own personal narration. It looks like a space that absorbs all the lights and accumulates them through her body. The layers delivering an instant of light to eternity are born as the light that does not interfere with the innocence of each layer and form their own space containing air and scenery of each moment.

The artist shows us the wonder that even concentrates the essence of everything we feel about light and space and is renewed with the vitality that can be interpreted and seen as a vast scene painting with the moderate surface of space and exceeding the limitations of minimal painting.

The artist in the performing space in which she moves roughly through the layers of light with a knife stated to get immersed into something that has the center of everything. In the very center, there is an intrauterine matrix that is newly recognized by the artist’s whole spirit, and there is also her way to compare and communicate with a frame sent from her own umbilical cord and the whole intrauterine matrix and her own frame. It is a way to solve how much it reaches the whole aspects of the artist and is delivered as rich echo from the inner space where layers of light and number drawing 123 are piled up and contained for new understanding and reproduction at every moment. And the semi-transparency of the layers produced by mixing oil colors and wax reproduces the present status of the artist herself remaining still as her moderate reason cannot arise defeating her emotion dreaming transparency. Therefore, it seems similar to the surface of minimal painting, but it is also a spot of communication interpreted and understood from a new perspective by the layers of each moment.

Critic, John Russell, said, “A thing we saw this week may look different next week.” This refers not only to translatable states simply like the styles, colors, and sides of a work but also to the intersecting point of the artist’s reason and emotion regarding the way and position of free communication. And as a crucial point to be mentioned most strongly in the work, the artist who continuously changes and is renewed as giving and receiving influence with everything says, “It’s important for my thought to get expression.” In other words, she experiences communication and discontinuation at the same time where various narrations pile up in front of the painting with a premise of communication with all. It’s the very minimal painting of Kim’s regarding communication that is translatable or not and is also the essence of the state of discontinuation as well as communication. However, this writer thinks that discontinuation is a part of the range of communication. It’s the essence of multiple layers beyond communication and discontinuation after all.

History of mind / Layers of mind / Window of mind / Room of mind
Layers of mind : I intended to put into my work the history formed by all the layers of mind of people having lived from the beginning up to now.

-- From the artist’s note

NOMAD
Despite her recent move from New York to Korea, she still remains as the state of a stranger and is absolutely independent. Artist, Mikyung Kim moves the facts she discovers from her ordinary world along with her body moving constantly to the sense of her eyes. The artist knowing being simple is not easy records light subtly different each day and symptoms making her dizzy through her own eyes. In her work, she also floats each of the independent layers in her painting and concentrates it as an essence. Various narrations, lights, colors, and spaces let us feel every process, treatment, and cure of our sensibility.

--Kim Jae-Won, curator at Dr. Park's Gallery