黑料不打烊

Multihyphenate artist Joeun Kim Aatchim (b. South Korea) is a prodigious diarist. Over the last decade and across an ever-growing breadth of media鈥攑oetry, print compilation, etching and intaglio, drawing, painting, installation, and audio-video formats鈥擜atchim has interwoven her rigorous practice with a meticulous catalog of her adult life. Major themes have come to include matters of illness and healing, trauma and personal faith, familial histories, reconciliations, and ongoing negotiations as a South Korean immigrant to the United States. Integral to her practice at nearly all levels are 鈥渄rafts鈥濃�攖he initial, intermediate, or indeterminate stages in the process of art-making that for Aatchim prove rich in both pedagogy and poetics. From translucent silk surfaces that metaphorize the artist鈥檚 own experience of sight and space, to time-based installations that transform and dissipate throughout the course of their presentation, Aatchim鈥檚 work centers an unabashedly idiosyncratic study of memory, language, and the labors of self-reflection.