Published on March 22, 2021

Hyemi Kim

City Collage, Single channel video, 02:15, 2019, image courtesy of the artist

“City Collage is a short-looped video collage series. I juxtaposed various city scenes to make utopic landscapes. Each work uses over 15-20 videos as its sources. Video is a time-based medium and contains movement. Therefore, when I combine videos to create a united landscape, It requires a precise connection of all moving elements. In City Collage 2, for instance, I could make a boat floats on the Lake for a long time by joining several videos seamlessly. The precision of connecting moving images is the key to my magical utopia. Using editing technic as a tool, I accomplish my imagination realizing into the digital world.” Hyemi Kim, 2021.

Hyemi Kim is a multi-media artist based in New York and Seoul. She received her MFA in Photography, Video, and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts. Her video works were shown at Time Square, from the ZAZ corner and several group shows in NYC. She participated in the 2017 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, and 2016 ASYAF. She does numerous video and photo collages in recent years to create a new digital utopia, representing her scattered memories and experiences in contemporary life.