Sweet Salvation: Dew Kim & Yaloo

Opening reception: Thursday, August 3, 6pm

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. By using the process of destruction, in masochistic terms –which are both pain and pleasure– he focuses on how chastity training in the BDSM community allows the practitioners to transport and expand sexual desires by renouncing genital arousal and eroticizing the anus. This leads to a deconstruction of the signified body and creates a new language of sexuality that is beyond the phallocentric order. Kim participated in group exhibitions at Documenta 15, Kassel; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul; Barbican Centre, Tate Modern Turbine Hall, Camden Arts Centre and Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Ilmin Museum of Art, N/A, and Alternative Space Loop, Seoul; Daegu Art Museum; Buenos Aires Biennial; Palazzo Lucarini Contemporary, Trevi; Para Site, Hong Kong; Grey Projects, Singapore; Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin and more.

Yaloo earned BFA and MFA in video art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has been selected for fully funded international residencies such as Zer01ne and Asia Culture Center in Korea, the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum in Japan, Western Front and La Bande Video in Canada, the Headlands Art Center and Bemis Studio Art Center in USA. She was also awarded a Lyn Blumenthal Memorial Scholarship by Video Data Bank and won a Gold Prize in visual arts from the AHL Foundation in New York. Last year, she was part of a duo show at FACT Liverpool, UK.

Dew Kim and Yaloo
Curated by Yoojin Jang and Junyoung Lee
Design by Subin Choi