1995 /
Eunha Kim(b.1995) focuses on used clothing and fast fashion that are rapidly consumed and discarded in the consumer society, and works to give a new value to discarded clothing. Similar to clothing that is intimately connected to life, she uses her own experiences to imagine and gives meaning to commonplace items like food, plants, and consumer products. She concentrates on the process of spontaneously deconstructing and gathering the unique colors, patterns, and textures of the collected materials to create new forms. By depicting familiar objects in exaggerated scale, it presents images that are both unfamiliar and stimulating to the imagination, and the combination of different materials conveys a sense of both familiarity and strangeness simultaneously. Recently, Kim has been expanding her interest in the interaction between clothing and nature through the clothes moth, which feeds on the fibers of clothing, and exploring the possibility of mushrooms growing on natural fibers. Motivated by the unpredictable vitality of mushrooms, she highlights the resemblance between their mycelium and the threads composing clothing. She continues to work on the possibility of clothing fibers functioning as nutrients for mushrooms, allowing them to absorb the color and printing of the fabric as they grow.
Eunha Kim (b.1995) focuses on fast fashion and clothing that is quickly consumed and discarded in the modern consumer society, and gives new value to clothing that has lost its use. Like clothes that are close to her life, she creates images of objects that are within reach, such as food, plants, and consumer goods, by giving them imagination or meaning from her personal experiences. I focus on the unique colors, patterns, and textures of the materials I collect, improvising and combining them to create new shapes. Familiar objects are exaggerated in size to present unfamiliar yet imaginative images, and the combination of different materials conveys a sense of familiarity and foreignness at the same time. Recently, he has expanded his interest in the interaction between clothing and nature with worms that feed on the fibers of clothing, exploring the possibility of mushrooms growing on natural fibers. Inspired by the unpredictable vitality of mushrooms, he draws attention to the similarities between their mycelium and the threads that make up clothes. The fibers of the clothes become the mushrooms' nutrients, and he continues to work on the possibility of the mushrooms absorbing the colors and prints of the clothes and growing.