# @drawingcenter on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BTt0s9uBLIP
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16047033-drawingcenter-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/ecf3e9b549.jpg
- **Posted:** 2017-05-05T15:39:05.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Drawing Center (@drawingcenter) — https://gondola.cc/drawingcenter

## Caption

Artists have a variety of methods to make their mark. Every Friday we will share a photograph of an #ArtistInAction.

Kimsooja’s textile, performance, and installation works create meaning through repetition, building on a number of favored forms from traditional Korean textiles to the artist's own body. Born in Taegu, Korea, in 1957, Kimsooja earned both a BFA and MFA from Hong-Ik University in Seoul. In each minimal, deeply human work, she cultivates an ever growing series of images and associations using her body, voice, and image. By using the image of the “bottari”—a bundled cloths used for carrying belongings— Kimsooja  engages with structures of place and identity. Each of Kimsooja’s highly patterned and colored bottari, handsewn, laid out, or used to encapsulate the few belongings of an unidentified carrier, reference different bodily, geographic, and even planetary states. In her installation works, mirrors refract the light of multicolored projections, and the artist’s own breathing mimics the industrial hum of a textile manufacturer. These elements are turned back on the viewer, acutely aware of their own breath and space in such works as the “To Breathe” series.

#Kimsooja

Image: Kimsooja in her piece “To Breathe: Bottari” in the South Korean Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, 2013. Photograph by Jaeho Chong.

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