the key to understanding his work can be found from
the way our contemporary society places value on
the relativity rather than the absolute objectivity of a
matter or meaning. scientists, for example, build a
hypothesis as a basis to develop their theory.
it is just a hypothesis, not the absolute truth, however
they at first belive it as the truth, and move forward
according to it. nonetheless, they experience the
limitations of their own hypothesis in certain
circumstances, and give birth to new hypothesis
wholly different from the one before.
kim’s approach is similar to this.
rather than basing his subjects on truth his works are
somewhere between the two-dimensional and the three-
dimensional.

in ‘I love you’ a towering robotic white alien statue gazes
adoringly at a refrigerator. the alien`s face reflects an
altered image of the refrigerator, quietly suggesting that
love alters perceptions. after pondering the nature of
alien love, take a close look at ‘deller hon dainy’,
a triad of huge heads meant to represent what faces
look like when one attempts to remember them with one`s
eyes closed. on one of the sculptures, a menacing little
face struggles to free itself from the disturbingly bare
surface of the head.
there are two clocks, thin relief works in black and white.
the pendulum of the clock in ‘will you do well alone?’
moves in a defined space, oscillating between the split
dimensions: those of the space touched by the pendulum
and the space untouched by the pendulum.
kim attempts to define the boundary between dimensions,
and it is exactly in this in-between area which the artist
advices us to step away from and to move on.