![]() ![]() Sung Hwan Kim was born in 1975 in Seoul, South Korea, and lives and works in New York. Music and sound, particularly dogr’s wide ranging vocals, are used to establish a distinctive mood and pace within the films. Kim’s long-term collaboration with musician and composer David Michael DiGregorio, who records and performs under the name dogr, is also an important element of the installation, and his music andimage appear in each video. Kim’s inspirations for Temper Clay range from the film-within-a-film cameos of Jean-Luc Godard and others in Agnés Varda’s Cleo from 5 to 7 to Shakespeare’s exploration of King Lear’s reign versus that of his daughters, alongside the personal experiences of his mother, aunt and family members. 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 Vi d eo 2006, Washing Brain an d Corn 2010, and Temper Clay 2012 – each presented within distinct and carefully constructed spaces. In the smaller of the two rooms we see From the Comman d ing 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. ![]()
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