Nayul Kim 

Nayul Kim
 

Nayul Kim (1982, KO) approaches painting through the medium of virtual reality. Armed with Virtual Reality goggles and two controllers Kim sculpts objects from memory that echo her Korean culture and family history. By sculpting these objects in VR  she is able to connect a bodily experience to the sculpting of a bodiless object. After, when the sculpting in VR is done, Nayul is left with two things, the memory of her physical activity in VR and a screenshot capturing the result of said activity. The act of sculpting in VR has

purpose for her in two ways; to generate material to paint and to have an alternative experience of the object that she wishes to substantialize in her painting. VR became the ultimate tool for Nayul in support of her painting.