Skin texture, bracelet, 109 x 104 x 37 mm, silicone, 2017 Skin texture 2, brooch, around 90 x 46 x 27 mm, silicone, stainless steel, 2017 Wrapped skin_brooch 4, pig intestine, copper 63 x 105 x 25 mm
Wrapped skin_brooch 9, pig intestine, copper 35 x148 x 35 mm, 2017 Wrapped skin_brooch 7, pig intestine, copper 103 x 72 x 32 mm, 2017 Wrapped skin_brooch 1, pig intestine, copper, 2017 Wrapped skin_brooch 2, pig intestine, copper 90 x 68 x 28 mm, 2017
Second languae 2, brooch, metal mesh, resin, 2015
Brooch 05, Jewellery as Second Skin
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As ‘Animal Becoming,’ a philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, states, my skin is opened with a new response by transforming it through an actual skin of animals.
Through a transformation between animal and human, changes can be brought to the source of my behaviors. Such transformed body expression may have the significance to perceive a new self and find independence.
The
The brooch series of
Also, by replacing skin of reptile by body skin and contraposing as a skin of other species, I wanted to find independent body through empathy or differentiation. In other words, I wanted to show new significance of jewellery through the beauty of modified body. A medium of skin expression, the membrane of animal’s inter organ, has also the concept of skin as jewellery through the transforming of internal skin of body into external skin in the non-human body. This is a finding of another self in the process of existing skin’s distortion into a new one.
A subtle exchange between reality and ideal through an ironic skin modification is embodied into a new idea. Such a displacement between the subject and the object is not only a process of observing self, finding an independent body, and actualizing the desire mechanism, but also a play that enjoys a formative expression.
‘Second language’ is showing this person’s intuitive formative language like drawing. This person intended to discover a potential which will become something more than a form with the possibility of a form which changes in intuitive perception The ‘second language’ is organic creases consequent on materials. This is the process of being transformed into the endless dynamic form through organic windingness, crookedness and folding by constructing an abstract form using organic creases consequent on materials.
Kyeok KIM
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