Minjeong Kim

Bio

Minjeong Kim (minlykim) is a multidisciplinary artist based in London. She studied Ceramic Art and Design at Seoul National University of Science and Technology and completed an MA in Jewellery and Metal at the Royal College of Art in 2024. Working across jewellery and installation, her practice explores touch, negative space and the body's sensory habituation. She has exhibited internationally, including the United Kingdom, Germany, China, United States, Korea.

Statement

Minjeong Kim sees touch as one of the most basic ways people become aware of themselves, and as the sense that connects the body to its surroundings. Our skin is constantly in contact with the world around us, but as this contact becomes familiar, we stop noticing it. We begin to recognise objects without consciously feeling them.

Minjeong understands this exchange between the body and its surroundings as a kind of translation. Just as a phrase can take on different meanings across languages, an experience can change depending on which sense we use to perceive it. Her work disrupts familiar encounters, creating a mismatch between what the eye expects and what the body feels. This mismatch makes the familiar feel strange, drawing our attention back to touch. As the sensation gradually becomes familiar again, it fades from awareness, and the cycle repeats. Her work returns to this movement between familiarity and strangeness, repeatedly renewing our awareness of touch.

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