b. 1983 Korea
Lives and works in Berlin.
Seulki Ki majored in Photography at Seoul Institute of the Arts and received her M.F.A. from Slade School of Fine Art in London, UK. She has had solo shows at Space K and Gallery Chosun in Korea, and at Doosan Gallery, in both New York and Seoul. In addition to her exhibitions in her native Korea, she has also collaborated in group shows internationally, in the UK, Ireland, Germany, USA, Japan, Vietnam and Russia. In her practice, Ki treats photography as an experimental medium, and has explored its reproducibility and limitations in the forms of books, videos, and installations. Intrigued by body gestures, language, and collisions between them, she finds and assembles replacements that can actualize her flow of thoughts. She endows a character to the visible, weaves the relationships of elements, reverses the flow of time, moves through space, and she manages to mediate the viewer’s thought flows. Her work alone stays as evidence in this whole process, induces different interpretations than usual ones, and activates psychological mechanism to associate related concepts.
“Ki’s work often challenges the process of perception where experience plays into one’s cognition of the subject matter. Her study of the invisible—i.e. human psyche, conflict and belief—is visualized through various mediums such as photography, installation, and performance, that hold one theme in common: blurring of the subject and object.”
As reviewed on Asia Contemporary Art Week, sponsored by New York Foundation for the Arts
Awards& Grant
2019 International Cultural Exchange Grant, Arts Council Korea, Korea
2017 Grant from Arts Council Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Korea
2016 International Cultural Exchange Grant, Arts Council Korea, Korea
2016 Grant from Incheon Foundation for Arts & Culture, Korea.
2014 Grant from Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation, Korea.
2013 SeMA Emerging Artist Grant, Seoul Museum of Art, Korea
2012 The Special Graduate Award,The 2012 Peaches & Creams London, UK
2012 UK Winner, Flash Forward-Emerging Photographers 2012, Magenta Foundation, Canada
Torso, 2018, Archival pigment print, 80 X 80 cm, ed 1/5
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