Head Help Heart, 2023
A series of framed diptychs presented at Franz Kaka, Toronto, ON.
Incremental Movements: The Slow Pace of Mourning, 2023, Graphite on cotton rag paper, 40 x 52 inch (40 x 26 inch each)
Grief Did Not Flower Me With Love, 2023, Graphite on cotton rag paper, 30 x 44 inch (30 x 22 inch each)
Arising Contradictions: The Loving Relations Grief Implies, 2023, Graphite on Cotton Rag Paper, 30 x 44 inch (30 x 22 inch each)
Measuring The Distance Between Us, 2023, Graphite on cotton rag paper, 40 x 52 inch (40 x 26 inch each)
Definitive Loss Which Does Not Wear Away, 2023, Graphite on cotton paper, 12 x 18 inch (12 x 9 inch each)
Precarious Untangling, 2023, Graphite on cotton paper, 12 x 18 inch ( 12 x 9 inch each)
Cor of Courage: To Tell The Story Of Your Whole Heart, 2023, Graphite on cotton paper, 12 x 18 inch (12 x 9 inch each).
Sun in Simultaneity, 2023, Graphite on cotton paper, 12 x 18 inch (12 x 9 inch each)
Head Help Heart begins by stretching a mark into a line, which is used to construct a grid, that becomes the ground upon which a series of instructional procedures are enacted. Drawing from a lineage of artists who utilize texts, scores, and instructions in their work, Kim reimagines the cold and distant grid, a hallmark of last century’s conceptual practices, as a potentially subjective space that can instead be ordered by intuition and infused with care and comfort. Here, the cyclical exchange between head and heart dances across a set of fragile coordinates whose reported objectivity crumbles under the weight of struggle or deep loss. Kim’s interest though is not to dwell upon the gap between these duelling states but to instead allow them to co-exist simultaneously; sentiment and logic, chaos and control, connection and detachment, contingency and necessity. Kim’s drawings investigate the ongoing exchange between these poles to question the complex set of relations used to find balance and regain agency.
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All Photos Courtesy of LFdocumentation.
Nicole Ji Soo Kim & Franz Kaka would like to thank Superframe for their generous support of this exhibition through the Superframe framing fund.