Kim Kyung Min, with her sensitive perception and rich sentiment, reproduces scenes taken from our daily lives and turn them into joyful sculpture works. As a mother of three children and a wife to a husband, Kim Kyung Min finds subjects from everyday happenings at home which is a big part of her life and sculpts three-dimensional figures with an add of her fertile imagination. Kim Kyung Min now bases her work and emphasis around the family theme, each family member's role and their harmony as a whole. In her series of 'A Close Relationship' describing bath time, it shows a couple and a mother-children help each other and build intimacy by bathing together and her 'Homeward Bound' of a family cycling to home reminds viewers that a balance between family members is essential for family peace.
In the flood of abstruse contemporary art that often characterized by abstraction and non-objectivity, concept and "ism", Kim Kyung Min's easily understandable sculpture with humor and universality captures the eyes of contemporaries. The artist wishes to convey warmth and healing with her work to modern people who cannot easily open to others due to hurt and pain. Kim does not aim to make a grandiose aesthetic statement like existential philosophy and artistic discourse. Instead she values basic human ethics that have remained unchanged for long in despite of art historical flow and changes of the time thus practices the original function of the arts. Viewers become a part of this story told by Kim Kyung Min's artificial figures and naturally share the artist's intention of pursuing happiness of daily life and little joys.
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