Art Beats Festival

Jaeik Kim

This artist focuses on restoring lost or damaged memories through the imagination and expression of visible/invisible phenomena entangled behind various places.

“This work talks about the process of loss from a crevice of memory revived in a disordered(迷眩) space.”

He expresses the layers of memories that became extinct after being generated by events derived from specific locations composing the framework of urban social environment. This originate from the artist’s behavior of recording life and environment at points of time on spatial coordinates where the artist stays, as to phenomena of specific domains incorporated in spite of ourselves.


Project + Awards, Grants and Commissions (Exhibition & Screening)

2023~24, DDP Open Curating, Seoul Design Foundation, Seoul Metropolitan Government, Republic
of Korea
2023, SUBURBINALE, Groß-Enzersdorf, Austria
2023, Cinema Nahualli Program, Nahualli Gallery, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico
2022, Technology Convergence Showcase, Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of
Korea2022, TIMELESS AWARDS, Wrocław, Poland
2022, 13th MikroFAF, Belgrade, Yugoslav
2022, Online Media Acts, Arts Council Korea, Seoul,Republic of Korea
2022, Technology Convergence Project, Arts Council Korea, Seoul, South Korea
2022, Yangpyeong Art Lab (Individual Exhibition Support), Yangpyeong County Museum of Art,
Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea
2022 Seoul City Wall Culture Program, Seoul City, Republic of Korea
2022, Gyeonggi Peace Plaza Cultural Project, Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation, Gyeonggi-do, Republic
of Korea
2022, 4th Contemporary Art Festival, Galerija Reflektor, Užice, Serbia
2022, MicroActs • Artist Film Screening, MicroActs, London, UK
2022, Blow-Up Arthouse Filmfest, Chicago, USA
2022, Art Road Records, Arts Council Korea, Nationwide, South Korea
2022, Preparation for supporting the creation of multiple arts, Arts Council Korea, Seoul, Republic
of Korea
2021, Gyeonggi Arts Convergence Project, Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of
Korea
2021, Exciting Art Travel, Korea Culture and Arts Commission, Arts Council Korea, Nationwide,
Republic of Korea
2021, Online Media Acts, Arts Council Korea, Seoul, Republic of Koreaa
2021, Technology Convergence Project, Arts Council Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea
2021, Seoul City Wall Culture Program, Seoul City, Republic of Korea
2021, ExperimentoBio, Bilbao, Spain
2021, Nature&Culture–International Poetry Film-Festival, Copenhagen S, Denmark
2021, The 17th Athens Digital Arts Festival “Tāctus,”, Athens Digital Arts Festival, Athens, Greece
2021, Media Creation Contest, Seoul Institute, Seoul Metropolitan Government, Republic of Korea
2021, ON MEDIA. SIGNALS AND CONNECTIONS, LoosenArtGallery, Roma, Italy
2021, INSPIRED BY WORDS, LoosenArtGallery, Roma, Italy
2021, Urban Photo Exhibition, Seoul, Republic of Korea
2021, Gyeonggi Peace Plaza Cultural Project, Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation, Gyeonggi-do, Republic
of Korea
2021, OtherMovie Lugano Film Festival, Massagno, Swiss
2021, Los Angeles Photography Awards, Los Angeles, USA
2020~2021, Gyeonggi Regional Research Project, Gyeonggi Research Center, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea
2020, Creative Support Project, Seoul Cultural Foundation, Seoul Metropolitan Government
2020, Gyeonggi Public Art Project, Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea
2020, Han River Public Art Project, Seoul, Republic of Korea
2020, Gyeonggi Peace Plaza Cultural Project, Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation, Gyeonggi-do, Republic
of Korea
2017, Han River Public Art Project, Seoul, Republic of Korea
2017, Artistic Work Changing Seoul, Seoul Cultural Foundation, Seoul, Republic of Korea
2016, Creative Support Project, Seoul Cultural Foundation, Seoul, Republic of Korea
2015, Han River Public Art Project, Seoul, Republic of Korea
2014, Da Vinci Creative, Seoul Cultural Foundation, Seoul City, Republic of Korea
2014, Asia Cultural Information Service Research Project, Asia Cultural Center, Gwangju City, Republic of Korea

Last Invisible Lines

*Contents of the work
The form of this work is speculated by the flow of light. This visualized form and invisible thought are segmented in each space and extend beyond continuous frames. This audio video work might destroy one’s own reverie both inside and outside the frame. Afterwards, it would be turned into ruins and revealed as the the appearance of Real.
The longest disillusionment between this past dream and a new desire that has not come yet might be kairos, and the light that is scattered between the lines would be like a long disillusionment. Meanwhile, those visibilized in this way may cease to exist leaving only the last Speculation that cannot be detected.

*Intent of the Direction
The artist embodies the dreams and desires revealed between infinite forms of gap, and the pain of loss that dissipates in vain through the audio video work.