2020 Changwon
Sculpture
Biennale

Chroma

A huge structure is hanging from the ceiling, which takes the shape of a Möbius strip composed of three circles connected with each other. This work was inspired by a Torus Knot, a unique shape of a donut twisted into a knot. A Torus is a donut shape that is made by revolving a planar circle around one axis in three dimensions. Then this Torus was one again twisted into a knot. Such Torus Knot is also called a two-dimensional manifold. A manifold is called an assembly or a pseudo-space. This is a concept adopted to study the spaces in more than 4 dimensions by various geometric inferences. Of course, this work partially shares unique shapes of manifolds like a Torus Knot or a Möbius strip but applies these to his three-dimensional structure. Physically speaking, this is a three-dimensional structure we call a sculpture, but conceptually this is a two-dimensional manifold. However, KIM titles his work Chroma, a scientific name for an element of color, inviting both the scientific approach as well as artistic imagination. This work is a true merging of science and art by its geometric structure and the mesmerizing lights emitting through 300 cells on the surface.