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    Artwork Survey: 2000s

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    • A Needle Woman
      Installation at PS1, New York
      1999-2001
      Eight-channel video projection, silent, 6:33 minute loop

      Photo by Mary Heitner

      Courtesy the artist and PS1, New York

      © Kimsooja

    • A Needle Woman, detail. Mexico City (Mexico)
      1999-2001
      Eight-channel video projection, silent, 6 min 33 sec loop

      Locations: Cairo, Delhi, Lagos, London, Mexico City, New York, Shanghai, Tokyo

      Courtesy the artist

      © Kimsooja

    • A Needle Woman, detail. Tokyo (Japan)
      1999-2001
      Eight-channel video projection, silent, 6min 33sec loop

      Locations: Cairo, Delhi, Lagos, London, Mexico City, New York, Shanghai, Tokyo

      Courtesy the artist

      © Kimsooja

    • A Needle Woman
      1999–2001
      Eight-channel video projection, silent, 6min 33sec loop

      Locations: Cairo, Delhi, Lagos, London, New York, Shanghai

      Courtesy the artist

      © Kimsooja

    • Bottari
      2000
      Used bed covers and used clothing
      dimensions variable
      Private Collection

      Courtesy the artist

      © Kimsooja

    • Cities on the Move–Bottari Truck
      Installation at Rodin Gallery, Seoul
      2000
      2 1/2 ton truck stacked with Bottaris

      Photo by Kim Hyunsoo

      Courtesy Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul and the artist

      © Kimsooja

    • Bottari
      Installation at "Partage d’exotismes," 5th Lyon Biennale, 2000
      2000
      Used bed covers and used clothes
      dimensions variable

      Courtesy the artist

      © Kimsooja

    • A Homeless Woman
      2000
      Single-channel video projection, silent, 6:33 minute loop

      Locations: Delhi and Cairo

      Courtesy the artist

      © Kimsooja

    • A Beggar Woman
      2001
      Single-channel video projection, silent, 8:50 minute loop

      Locations: Mexico City, Cairo, and Lagos

      Courtesy the artist

      © Kimsooja

    • A Lighthouse Woman
      Installation at Spoleto Festival USA on Morris Island, Charleston, South Carolina
      2002
      Nine different lighting sequences, 30 minute loop

      Photo by Ryan King

      Courtesy of Spoleto Festival, South Carolina and the artist

      © Kimsooja

    • Epitaph
      2002
      Digital c-print
      48 × 60 inches

      Photo by Jason Schmidt

      Courtesy the artist and Peter Blum Gallery, New York

      © Kimsooja

    • A Mirror Woman
      2002
      Korean bedcovers, parallel mirror structure walls, four fans, cable, and Tibetan Monk chant
      62 × 21 1/5 × 13 feet

      Photo by Bill Orcutt

      Collection of MUDAM, Luxembourg

      Courtesy the artist and Peter Blum Gallery, New York

      © Kimsooja

    • A Needle Woman
      2005
      One channel of a six channel video installation, silent, 10:30 minute loop

      Locations: Havana (Cuba), Jerusalem (Israel), N'Djamena (Chad), Patan (Nepal), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), and Sana'a (Yemen)

      Courtesy the artist

      © Kimsooja

    • Conditions of Anonymity
      Times Square, New York
      2005

      Commissioned and presented by Creative Time. Photo by Alon Koppel.

      Courtesy the artist

      © Kimsooja

    • To Breathe: Invisible Mirror/Invisible Needle
      Shown at Teatro La Fenice, Venice
      2006
      Light installation, sound-performance piece by the artist from "The Weaving Factory," 2004

      Photo by Luca Campigotto

      Courtesy the artist and The Bevilacque La Masa Foundation

      © Kimsooja

    • To Breathe—A Mirror Woman
      Installation at The Crystal Palace, Madrid
      2006
      Diffraction grating film, mirror, and sound performance piece by the artist from "The Weaving Factory," 2004

      Photo by Jaeho Chong

      Courtesy the artist and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid

      © Kimsooja

    • To Breathe—A Mirror Woman
      Installation at The Crystal Palace, Madrid
      2006
      Diffraction grating film, mirror, and sound performance piece by the artist from "The Weaving Factory," 2004

      Photo by Jaeho Chong

      Courtesy the artist and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid

      © Kimsooja

    • To Breathe—A Mirror Woman
      Installation at the Crystal Palace, Madrid
      2006
      Diffraction grating film, mirror, and sound performance piece from "The Weaving Factory," 2004

      Photo by José Luis Municio

      © Kimsooja

      Courtesy the artist and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid

    • Mumbai: A Laundry Field
      2007
      C-prints
      35 × 28 3/8 inches each (mounted)

      Courtesy the artist

      © Kimsooja

    • Lotus: Zone of Zero
      Installation at Rotunda, Galerie Ravenstein, Brussels
      2008
      Approximately 2000 lotus lanterns; Tibetan, Gregorian, and Islamic chants; steel structure and cables
      dimensions variable

      Photo by Mikäel Falke

      Courtesy the artist; The Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels; The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Korea; and Dijon Consortium

      © Kimsooja

    • Lotus: Zone of Zero
      Installation at Rotunda, Galerie Ravenstein, Brussels
      2008
      Approximately 2000 lotus lanterns, Tibetan, Gregorian, and Islamic chants; steel structure and cables
      dimensions variable

      Photo by Mikäel Falke

      Courtesy the artist; The Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels; The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Korea; and Dijon Consortium

      © Kimsooja

    • Lotus: Zone of Zero
      Installation at Rotunda at Galerie Ravenstein, Brussels
      2008
      Approximately 2000 lotus lanterns, Tibetan, Gregorian, and Islamic chants; steel structure, and cables
      dimensions variable

      Photo by Fabrice Kada

      Courtesy the artist; The Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels; The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Korea; and Dijon Consortium

      © Kimsooja

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