‘The Dividing Line Between Light and Dark’

KiChan Song & Showna Kim
11.10-31.10.2014

The Dividing Line Between Light and Dark is a collaborative exhibition of KiChan Song’s series of photography Boca Mina, and Showna Kim’s new work A Small, Silent Utopia in Mother Earth. Song’s Boca Mina – first shown in Buenos Aires at the Bolivian Consulate (2010), and then again in Madrid (2011) – was shot on location in the Andes Mountains near the Bolivian city of Potosi, at one of the largest and oldest silver mines in the world, El Cerro Rico (Rich Peak). The enigmatic black and white photographs depict the daily lives and struggles of the local miners and their families as a new kind of realism in response to the poor economic and working conditions at the mine in Potosi. Song’s unique cinematic style, which is documentary in its approach, is much more fluid, and constitutes a thorough exploration of the medium of photography.  

Showna Kim’s  A Small, Silent Utopia in Mother Earth is an eight-box installation piece created in response to Song’s photography. Within the dry and dusty ambience of the exhibition space, Kim depicts the rough, grainy conditions inside the mine and transports the audience to the deep darkness of the eight underground levels in the mountain.

Artist Intro:                                                                                                                                                          

Kichan Song works as a photographer with great passion for documenting the lives of people and the environments in which they live through his travels and experiences living abroad in India, Australia, Central Asia, Europe and South America.

Showna Kim is a London-Seoul based artist and director. Through an immersive experience, Showna Kim’s work combines luminous painting and ultraviolet light to create multi-dimensional installations in darkness.