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March 1, 2009

From April 17 till May 31 galerie robrecht shows the work of Jinran Kim.

While exhibiting, Jinran Kim will work on site and is accessible at all times during opening hours.

Jinran Kim, born in Seoul, has had solo exhibitions in Tokio, Paris, Berlin and teaches at Seoul National University.

Her work focuses on memory - at its most intimate:

Whether used soap, smudgy mattrasses or clipped toenails - Jinran Kim devotes her attention to traces the body leaves behind, more or less involuntarily. Framing these traces in precious materials, she evokes and honors the biographies of those who left these traces behind.

Her protagonists often are from Korea, but her perspective is that of an artist inspired by German literature, namely Ingeborg Bachmann.

"I read Ingeborg Bachmann", says Jinran Kim, "because she writes about identity and the way we remember ourselves. That Koreans read Bachmann, seems surprising to Germans, probably only because hardly anyone here knows about Korean art and literature".