Kim sung hwan biography of williams

New York–based artist Sung Hwan Kim presents Hair is a Piece of Head, the first part of a multi-part research work, A Record of Drifting Across the Sea (2017–ongoing).

The project comprises short films, books, and installations grounded in the artist’s ongoing exploration of the histories of Korean immigration to the United States at the turn of the twentieth century.

Kim sung hwan biography of williams

In this presentation, we show the film and the accompanying publication, which both explore the key sources of imagery which provide motifs for the first iteration of this ongoing research.

The film references the May 18 Democratization Movement in Gwangju, South Korea (also known as the Gwangju Uprising, 18—27 May, 1980) in which it is estimated that around 600 people were killed.

During this period, Gwangju citizens took up arms after local Chonnam University students—who were demonstrating against the martial law government—were brutalised by government troops. Throug