Seulki Ki

Seulki Ki, Apparent Death, single channel video, black & white, 6:32 minutes, 2020

Seulki Ki treats photography as a main medium, and has explored its reproducibility and limitations in forms of books, videos, and installations. Intrigued by body gestures, language, and collisions between them, she finds and assembles replacements that can actualize her flow of thoughts. She endows a character to the visible, weaves the relationships of elements, reverses the flow of time, moves through space, and she manages to mediate the viewer’s thought flows. Her work alone stays as evidence in this whole process, induces different interpretations than usual ones, and activates psychological mechanism to associate related concepts.

Certain types of insects and spider, when unexpectedly attacked, fall into a paralytic 
state, kind of epileptic seizure ... an airport whose control tower has been seized by
lunatics... fragmented picture. He wanted to believe that his own lack if movement had 
stopped all movement in the world, the way a hibernating frog abolishes winter. 

- Kobo Abe 'The woman in the dunes' 

Apparent Death

Seulki Ki (b. 1983) majored in photography in Seoul Institute of the Arts and received her M.F.A. from Slade School of Fine Art in London, UK. She had solo shows at Doosan Gallery (2018, New York), Seuol(2017), Space k(2015 Seoul) and Gallery Chosun (2013, Seoul). She presented her works at the Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul(2019), Daegu Photo Biennial (2018), Vietnam Korean Cultural Center, Hanoi(2017), Novosibirsk Museum of Art, Russia (2016), Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka(2016) , National Art Center of Japan, Tokyo(2015), National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon (2015), Gyeonggi-do Art Museum (2014) and many others. She was a resident artist Doosan residence programs, New York (2018), Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik, Berlin(2016), Fukuoka asian art museum, Japan (2016) and Goyang Art Studio, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea(2014). She was awarded UK Winner, Flash Forward-Emerging Photographers 2012 of Magenta Foundation in Canada in 2010 and Emerging Artists of Seoul Museum of Art in 2013 and International Cultural Exchange Grant, Arts Council Korea, 2017 and 2019.