KIAF Seoul 2025

This year, Kiaf Seoul explores the theme of "Resonance," highlighting the ever-evolving landscape of contemporary art shaped by mutual influence among audiences, galleries, and institutions. In this spirit of resonance, LEE & BAE will present experimental works by five contemporary artists. atelierJAK explores “spaces in between,” observing points of human interaction and intersection. Moving between digital and analog media, their work visualizes subtle boundaries among phenomena, reality, and the real. By sharply capturing the gap between actual events and their representations in digital video, the collective questions the instability of perception and the uncertainty of existential truth. Mihei Her’s Entre-deux series encapsulates time and space within acrylic boxes juxtaposing contrasting images such as reality and fiction, interior and exterior. Through diverse modes of expression, these works collectively reconfigure the relationship between memory of space and the concept of existence. She presents the spaces and times she has personally experienced, framing her artistic practice as a form of theatrical play. In her work, the self appears simultaneously as subject, object, performer, and artist. Minjung Geum’s 'video sculptures’ that express the traces of the past remembered by specific places, combined with the movements of natural phenomena. She transforms emotions felt in specific places into geometric forms, blending them with realistic images of nature to express its movements. By embedding emotional patterns into simulated natural scenes, her work explores how human feelings toward nature can be visualized through scientific and geometric language. Jinwook Yeom’s Memory of Mountain series is a profound portrayal of timeless, absolute freedom through delicate and tranquil brushwork. She uniquely expresses perception in front of landscapes that resist depiction. Normally, our perception of form and color distinguishes objects from one another and separates the viewer from the seen. Yet Yeom’s work blurs the e boundaries, dissolving distinctions between object and object, viewer and vi ewed, opening up new dimensions of perception. Her paintings do not simply present something to be seen—they place us within the act of seeing itself. Bongsang Yoo creates dreamlike landscapes of light, meticulously rendered using hundreds of thousands of tiny pins. He doesn't depict landscapes. Rather, He reconstructs what remains after they pass — traces of perception, accumulated impressions of time — and raise them again on the surface. Yoo's work is built through a slow, meditative repetition of labor: hammering hundreds of thousands of headless pins into the panel. These pins are not brushes. They form topography, dictate direction, and create textures that carry light and shadow. Hammering pins into the panel is entirely manual and physical. He focuses not on emotion or narrative, but purely on labor itself. Each consistent strike, interval, and angle is not simple craft, but a structural operation.