Sio Kim

Seoul, South Korea
b. 1984

The backgrounds and subjects that compose the surface of my work are concrete objects and landscapes.
However, the arrangement of these objects, the performative scenes, and certain effects evoke a sense of fantasy, transforming the background into an anonymous landscape.This reveals another hidden expression within familiar scenery—an ambiguous space that exists between reality and unreality.

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My work places realistic and tangible subjects in anonymous, unreal spaces, inducing a sense of surrealism.
Through this, I explore the intersections of reality and unreality—markers shaped by the collision of cyclical human life and the fleeting moments that resonate differently for each individual.

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"The past has passed, and the future does not yet exist—only the present is true to me.
Whether it shatters and disappears or flows beyond my grasp, the present will inevitably become the past.
And still, the future will not exist.
From the moment I came to understand this, the present has always been brilliant and vivid to me."