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    BENEATH THE SURFACE

    Jul 01, 2020 4 minutes

    Hun Kyu Kim LONDON / SEOUL

    un Kyu Kim’s intricate silk paintings feature provocative scenes layered with historical and popular-culture iconographies. (2019), which calls to mind George Orwell’s allegorical fiction (1945), depicts a hierarchical society, with the central institution—a barn, shown in a sectional view—supported by a league of underground creatures. The ruling pigs have religionized their dominance, with a stained-glass window portraying a god in their image behind an altar in the attic. Meanwhile, the shrews who inhabit the tunnels beneath have infiltrated the barn in an uprising, only to discover a pair of skeletons manning the table, the institution that has controlled them merely a shell.

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