In 사자굴 [Sajagul] — Then, out of the Den at Make Room Los Angeles, Joeun Kim Aatchim uses her family’s home as the ground from which to explore memories from her childhood in South Korea. For her first solo exhibition on the West Coast, Aatchim employs a traditional silk painting technique to depict haunting scenes in domestic spaces that vacillate between believable imagery and fantasy. Still, these fabricated scenes remain rooted in the real, as they capture the emotional register of memory, and stage its always-attendant slippage between reality and invention.
May 22, 2022
