Miru Kim

Korean (Born 1981)

Miru Kim's work juxtaposes harsh industrial and urban landscapes with the softness and incongruity of her nakedness. Yet the underlying concept goes much further than that. She sees cities as a living organism and she says of her favourite, New York: "The city has an anatomy and a psyche as complex as that of a human being." Thus the abandoned subway stations, tunnels, sewers, catacombs, factories and shipyards form the subconscious of the city. "As I momentarily inhabit these deserted sites, they are transformed from strange to familiar, from harsh to calm, from dangerous to ludic."

Miru Kim - CV