Minjung Kim

Minjung Kim carefully treats and burns thin hanji paper to change its shape and texture, showing how fragile materials react over time. In her three-part series Phasing and the single painting Vertical Timeless, she tears, stains, burns, and reassembles the paper.
    She creates a balance between destruction and harmony. Each mark and gesture become a trace of the artist’s work and presence, recording both process and emotion. These works speak of fractured identities, capturing the contradiction of yearning—between destruction and beauty, rupture and resilience.
    Minjung Kim uses gentle, emotional gestures to change the surface of her drawings. With this personal approach, she offers a contemporary interpretation of East Asian painting traditions, expanding them into the realm of contemporary abstraction.