SORA KIM ::::
born in 1965, Seoul
lives and works in Seoul

Sora Kim is an installation artist whose work often denies the definitions of a fixed social form and makes interventions into everyday occurrences. She often engages local communities and encourages audiences to actively get involved with her work. Kim intervenes into the process where meaning and value are defined, working with capital, labor, and technology (the priorities prized by capitalism). Kim’s interventional work enters this complex where meaning and value are defined, formed, and communicated within a social system. She re-creates this process, forcing gallery visitors to participate in it and examine their ideas of capitalism in a social system. Exploring the subjectivity of value and consumption, Kim created Capital Plus Credit Union. In this installation viewers are invited to deposit objects into the artist’s credit union, a kind of bank for the duration of the exhibition. Kim creates a value for each object and then makes notations and measurements based on the object’s size, weight, and use. noting the information on a deposit slip, the object earns interest over the duration of the exhibition.