NYAB Event - Olivia Kim "Travel To Your Unconscious Zone"

Olivia Kim "Travel To Your Unconscious Zone"

M55 Art

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Artist Statement

“I have always questioned why people try to think in the defined, safe way. Why people say this is right and that is wrong? To find an ideal answer of my life which can support me forever while living in the world I kept thinking about in my teenage. But when I found that the answer is nowhere I experienced the feeling like I was disappearing. After the experience I got very interested in human mind, the infinity of human mind.

I do not pursuit just beautiful part of my work. It is more dark and ugly. So I like to work with unconscious of our mind. Sometimes they are disgusting but it is part of us. I rather confront it than convert it in the beautiful way. I do not like to say about where I got the ideas because it is very hard to deliver into visual, textual, and linguistic way. The ideas are not influenced outside world, it is from a mixture of different form of emotions. I always travel here and there in my mind. During the travel images, melodies, and motions flow into me, it does not care whether I want or not. I do not carry the idea books or sketch books with me. The ideas are dissolved deeply in me.

Since I stopped studying music in school I became totally free with the way to express ideas. I use any way which I think better fit with the ideas each time I start to carry on my new work. I do want to be defined as one sort of artist. I play piano, dance, do installation art, and paint. I just choose the way when I think it is needed.”

Olivia Kim, August 2011.