Layers of Intricately Cut Paper Evoke Strength and Vulnerability in Christine Kim’s Elegant Collages
“By Coronary heart” (2022). All photos © Christine Kim, shared with permission
In intricately minimize collages by Ontario-based artist Christine Kim, flowers, foliage, and crown-like adornments embody nameless portraits. Painted floral motifs on rigorously torn items of paper paired with slats of wooden seem like lath uncovered beneath ornate wallpaper, offering a backdrop for the elegant silhouettes. The flowery designs of the figures’ headdresses counsel wrought iron with delicate strands of crops or ribbon partially obscuring their faces. In her sequence Paper Skinny, Kim explores myriad methods for working with the ever present materials.
Impressed to look at relationships between floor, sample, and quantity, she portrays how the medium may be each fragile and stable, inflexible but versatile. She describes in a statement that the sequence evokes “dualities of power and vulnerability, as stark black fences crown the regal feminine figures, however these obstacles are, in the long run, solely paper skinny.”
Kim’s work is at the moment on view at Galerie Youn in Montréal as a part of the group exhibition YOUNIVERSE till July 3. You will discover extra of her work on her website and on Instagram.
“Yesterday’s Ideas” (2022).
“Tales We Inform” (2022)
“At Least” (2022)
“In Good Religion” (2022)
“Boundaries of Ours” (2022)
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