DeepPond Kim
Dreaming, 2019
Ceramic, 17 x 21 x 27in
$8,500
 
DeepPond Kim (b.South Korea) DeepPond Kim is originally from South Korea and obtained an MFA in painting from Pratt Institute, and a BFA from Sungshin Women’s University. She has recently had a solo booth at the SPRING/BREAK Art Fair 2022 NYC and a group show at Equity Gallery, LES. Kim also participated in the Governor’s Island Art Fair 2019. She received the 1st AHL Foundation Artist Fellowship and was selected as one of the top 8 finalists worldwide for the MTV RE: DEFINE Award.
DeepPond’s work has an eerie disturbing quality that blurs the lines between fiction and reality, between humor and horror. All of her work awakens self-awareness and questions the authenticity and the limitations of established social structures. Her work reflects a subtle sense of anxiety, where she turns the world upside down, twisting what's familiar into a web of ironic, disturbing, and amusing emotions, inviting people into her alternate universe. Kim believes that the entire history of the world is in your body: My work addresses the state of disorder and disparity between hereditary values passed on by ancestors and individual beliefs gained through personal experience. This series of mutilated and reassembled bodies evokes feelings of unease and discomfort. This raw environment and thinking space provoke visceral emotions which can enable the viewer to redefine their own identity.