Heecheon Kim Deep in the Forking Tanks
he work of Heecheon Kim has experienced a steep critical ascent since the artist’s 2015 trilogy—, and —enthralled audiences at major presentations at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art and the Seoul Mediacity Biennale. It’s no surprise: Kim’s cheeky yet introspective videos seem refreshingly relevant, for they evince the ways in which reality and simulacra have collapsed by exploiting (2019), Kim signals the beginning of an unexplored phase within his practice by counterintuitively locating his investigations of a technologically mediated world within physical situations that generate unique perceptual experiences.
