The plates
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About imperfect and vanishing things :
there are some moments, while I am working on projects, when I don’t know when I should “finish” the work; it’s hard to predict the end. Therefore, I planned an imperfect job that couldn’t be completed at all. The premise of the work: I engrave on the prayer plate the names of all the people I have eaten with in the course of my life.
Remembering is an incomplete, uncertain, and fragile process. As a contrast, I used concrete, a
durable material, because I wanted to physically archive the fleeting moments we shared. If someone found their name in my work, they could remember the moment we had a meal together. Of course, I can’t remember all of the names, and therefore the work of art is a “work
in progress” and should potentially be continued for life. It forever remains incomplete.
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The plates cement in variable installation, since 2017
„Losing Touch?“ Installation shot in Mönchehaus Museum Goslar, 2019
On each of Min Kim’s concrete plates, the name of a person with whom the artist has eaten before is stamped. Her work captures this past section of time and the immediacy of togetherness; it is physically archived. The experience and memory captured from the flow of time “of that which nourishes us.” is solidified in physical concrete.
- Miriam Laage
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The plates cement in variable installation, since 2017
“kon:.takt”, Installationsansicht in make-up, Berlin, 2021