On view at MAM from Friday, June 29 to Sunday, August 26,
2012, Kimsooja's A Needle Woman consists of an eight-channel video installation
set in the densely populated centers of Cairo, Delhi, Lagos, London, Mexico
City, New York, Shanghai and Tokyo. In each projection, a lone figure stands
utterly motionless with her back to the camera, immersed amid a torrent of
pedestrians. With this simple gesture, the artist exemplifies the perennial
struggle to preserve a place for the individual within contemporary society,
while poetically embodying the experience of being engulfed within a foreign
culture. In the process, she provides a vivid sense of globalization's impact
on cities throughout the world. The presentation also includes two closely
related works by Kimsooja: In A Needle Woman - Kitakyushu, the artist lies
prostrate atop a rocky peak as clouds swirl hypnotically above her, while in A
Laundry Woman - Yamuna River, she stands at the banks of a sacred waterway in
India, suspended amid an ethereal void created by the sky's reflection on the
river surface. The pair offers a vision of timeless serenity as a counterpoint
to the frenetic energy of the 21st-century global city. Kimsooja: A Needle
Woman is organized by Miami Art Museum and curated by MAM Associate Curator
René Morales. Address:Miami Art Museum
101 W. Flagler St.
Miami, FL 33130
Downtown Miami Area
305/375-3000
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