EX EN UN AIR

Wihro Kim combines representational painting and abstraction to establish incidents of spatial disharmony and coalescence. Kim maps out transitions between interior and exterior spaces through the use of line work and patches of pigment, establishing a framework for the distribution of color and light and the modulation of form to describe unnamable but oddly familiar things. This fracturing of pictorial space characterizes a work’s structure but also functions similarly to perspective, foreshadowing, and dialogue. Kim’s description of the world, at once concurrent and disjointed, corresponds to emotional, social, and psychological frameworks through which people navigate the world.