![]() It looks at how parallel experiences from different cultures, places and times collide and interlink. The film explores the complexities of female relationships through love, matriarchy, domesticity and success. The latter is central to Kim’s installation and juxtaposes his parents’ flat in the Hyundai apartment complex with the family’s countryside home. ![]() In the second room we see a further three films – Dog Video 2006, Washing Brain and Corn 2010, andTemper Clay 2012 – each presented within distinct and carefully constructed spaces. ![]() In the smaller of the two rooms we see From the Commanding Heights… 2007, a film which intersperses a story set within the renowned South Korean Hyundai apartment complex with that of a rumoured affair between an actress and a dictator. Both contain architectural stage-sets that act as platforms for four of the artist’s films. Kim has divided one of Tate Modern’s former oil tanks into two highly atmospheric rooms where light and screened images bounce off mirrors, reflective material and walls. Kim’s unique way of story-telling plunges visitors into a fantastical world of optical illusions and doubling of imagery that draws on a rich history of performance and film, as he collects and collages encounters, sounds, sculptures and images from his changing homes of Seoul, Amsterdam and New York. He interweaves personal history, fantasy, rumour, politics and culture to create a work that responds to the unique architecture of The Tanks. Kim is known for his interdisciplinary work, incorporating installation, video, performance, music, light and drawing. The exhibition is supported by Sotheby’s and is unveiled from 18 July to 28 October. The Korean performance artist Sung Hwan Kim is the first artist to be commissioned for an installation in ‘The Tanks’, Tate Modern’s new galleries permanently dedicated to performance and film.
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