Minky Kim
she/her
Korean
Thesis: Boil, Burn, Belong : Kitchen as a Place of Endless Return
What remains after things that took time and care disappear?
Do they disappear completely, or linger in another material state?
We live in a society where being productive is regarded as a desirable virtue. Time and labour are treated as resources that must result in visible output. As someone who spends a good amount of time knitting daily, I try to shift my attention away from the finished object toward the process, time, and bodily effort involved in making.
I stitched my time, care, exhaustion, and I repeat is a time-based installation in which a hand crocheted tapestry is gradually unraveled and collected by a mechanical device. Stitches holding accumulated manual work and time slowly transform into a visible form of value, as invisible labour becomes visible. By translating abstract and incalculable human labour into numerical cycles, I question our perception of time, labour, productivity, and unproductivity.
The design of the spool is inspired by Korean traditional folk object eolle (얼레), a reel used for kite flying.
Special thanks to Eva Michiel Kees Bart Ibra
