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KIDOWS KIM
I was born in South Korea. After studying graphic design and mime, I continued my training at the CNDC in Angers and later pursued the Master Exerce program at ICI–CCN in Montpellier under the direction of Christian Rizzo.
My creations form an intimate cosmogony in the shape of a “Dictionary of Fantastical Creatures.” I have revealed its first three chapters: “Funkenstein” in 2021, the second part “Cutting Mushrooms” in 2023, and the third “High Gear” in 2025. In parallel, I am developing a series of punctual and ephemeral video-performances centered on an obsession with manga.
My work is imbued with “Monstrarchaeology,” a method that consists of excavating an ambiguous organic form that wanders between the figurative and the abstract, drawing from collective memories, intimate, social, political, and gender-related experiences. Based on this method, through the distortion of the normative human body, voice, and everyday objects, I explore the monstrosity that emerges from deconstructing dominant ideas within the collective unconscious. I try to extract the underground strangeness hidden in the prosaic, where the complex interactions between subject, object, and abject come to light.
My aesthetic is nourished by various alternative cultures °cyberpunk, experimental music and cinema, manga, video games…° that flow through my imagination and contaminate my forms.
My artistic practice unfolds as an interdisciplinary physicality expressed across multiple mediums (movement, clothing, sound, sculpture, writing, etc.). The body becomes the starting point for a proliferation of potential choreographic materials.
In order to question their stratification and the frictions that arise from it, I conceive the relationship between mediums as a metaphor for a hierarchical social order. Inspired by rhizomatic thought, I seek to approach these mediums not as fixed entities, but as fluid elements, capable of endlessly generating new configurations and new roots.
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