Nayul Kim
Nayul Kim (1982, KR) approaches painting through the medium of Virtual Reality. Armed with VR goggles and two controllers, Kim sculpts objects from memory that echo her Korean culture and family history. For Kim, Virtual Reality is a space for visualizing her ideas while providing a bodily experience of something bodiless. The process of working in a virtual space has two outcomes: the memory of her physical activity stored in her body and a screenshot capturing the result of this activity. This working method enables Kim to experience her body as an independent medium rather than only a supportive partner of other artistic media.
As a counterpart of working virtually, her process in painting is driven by thoroughly trained movements and deep-rooted knowledge. Mistakes, music, coffee, the movie she saw last week, and the book she read last night, in the slow-making process of oil painting, all can be involved in creating the body of a painting.