Kim Kyoungae travelled from The Republic of South Korea to India many years ago because she believed this to be a territory that may be more conducive to hold the imprint of who she knew herself to be. Trained as a painter, she chose to study museology to understand materials and preservation so that it would offer her greater insight as an art practitioner.

 

Shaping her life to resist conventional trappings, she continues to explore by filtering her enquiries through a poetic prism of perception. Her brush, loaded with pigment, slowly lets seep into the surface shapes and forms where her personal realities act as membranes through which to distil meaning.

 

The stain of colour, an imprint of memory, a story retold, a conjured space of transposed meanings - all to become new histories of perpetuated time. She grapples with a world where belonging isn’t about self-identity through geographic associations but seeks instead to find a philosophical anchorage as the plumb line of her mediation with the world.