Sweet Salvation — Subtitled NYC

Sweet Salvation

curated by Yoojin Jang and Junyoung Lee

08.03.2023 – 08.25.2023

Dew Kim
Yaloo

𝗗𝗲𝘄 𝗞𝗶𝗺 (b.1985, Seoul, South Korea) received his MA in Sculpture from Royal College of Art, London, UK and BFA in Metalsmithing and Jewelry from Konkuk University, South Korea. Kim’s artistic practice is built on exploring various intersections of art, religion, and identity that lie in the critical point of change and collision. He mainly works with video art and installations that explore issues of sexuality, queerness, feminism, sadomasochism, pop culture, religion, mysticism, and the body as forms of knowledge and research.

𝗬𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗼 earned BFA and MFA in video art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Since the recent pandemic, Yaloo spent a significant amount of time in Seoul. This experience helped her initializing Underwater Trilogy - Homo Paulinella the Lab, Pickled City, and Birthday Garden. All three chapters of the trilogy project capture a unique sense of contemporariness proper to East Asian metropolis, where centuries of time and the dramatic pulses of our planet in the Anthropocene can be accessed in a small alley.
Through her work, she attempts to take a post-colonial, post-Western-centric, and post-human-centric approach to new media art by imparting on DIY production pipeline for immersive storytelling and interdisciplinary collaboration. There are rich creative potentials to be appreciated in DIY computer graphics productions and immersive storytelling, especially when independent artists coming from different cultural, political, social backgrounds take control of their creative agency. In the mainstream commercial production of digital media, individual artists perform tasks in a hyper-modernized fordist process - in which a thousand people divide their roles into small pieces. As many independent media artists, Yaloo attempts to explore radically different visual possibilities through experimental problem- solving and to build her own production pipeline. Ultimately, Yaloo hopes to contribute to the diversity of the media languages of our everyday life.

All photos courtesy of Subtitled NYC, New York