Hansol Kim
Hansol Kim – MA/MFA
I explore fashion and clothing with an unwavering passion and obsession and delve into the multifaceted roles and formal possibilities of attire from social, political, economic and cultural aspects.
In experiments with the form of clothes, I capture the systemic circulation of contemporary trends through practices of deconstructing and reconstructing clothing as my sculptural grammar. My artistic approach, the potential for garments to transcend their protective quality for the human body, takes clothes to be independent creatures which adopt the strategies of natural organisms such as symbiosis, parasitism, mimicry, among others. Thus, I decontextualise my speculative sculpting to clothing and its inherent value with varied craft-based techniques.