Kim Sohee — À propos — Slash Paris

Suicide is a very special instance of death. Suicide is a violent act of one, as the subject, committing over himself as the object. It involves highly complicated nature of psychology.

In the attempt to defeat such circumscription, I make in‐depth research on real cases of suicide and make my own visual statements. The result is surreal rather than rational. It permits ambiguous experiences of fantasy like in a dream and yet it is neither an impetuous nor a sumptuous image.

I perform vicarious suicide on my work. I set up the camera with a self-timer. This artificial control of time implies one’s own will over his or her own time in life and in the act of suicide. At the precise moment when the shutter closes and opens I experience the rebirth of consciousness from this pseudo death and become the object of a ritual again in which I refresh the relations with my surroundings.

In the end, this work leaves me with a question. Suicide, why did they have to choose such a lonesome and secretive resort?

Kim Sohee