Chosil Kil
Export Wood – Wood Expert
Yard Studio
08.02.2008-02.03.2008

Raumars AIR is pleased to present the South Korean artist, Chosil Kil. During her residency in January February 2008, Kil completed Cocoon No.3, a symbolic shelter in the unique Old Rauma, a World Heritage Listed town as a largest received Nordic wooden city centre.

Cocoon no.3 is put together with the donated wooden bits given by the local residents in Rauma: old beds, doors, boards, windows, chairs. Inspired by behaviour of the Finnish wood ants, which tend to make their nest by engraving the wood fibres around the natural curves, the artist built Cocoon no.3 in spiral shape that resembles it.

Cocoon is a series of work which Kil hopes to build five of them in different countries. Chosil Kil has completed two Cocoons at Pouch Cove in Canada and at Sandes in Norway and will make two more in Ireland and Korea. The five different Cocoons that Kil will build throughout two years will come together to be exhibited at Riflemaker Gallery in London in 2009.

Alongside Cocoon no.3, Chosil Kil exhibits objects and drawings in her exhibition. Kil tells her imaginative stories through changing the contexts of found objects and illustrates her memories in abstract terms on paper: old glass bottles that contains rain drops; paper table cloth that was used in her kitchen table in her flat in Rauma for two weeks. Chosil Kil plays with ideas of permanence and transience, capturing the fleeting and embodying experience. By doubting the everyday she finds the extraordinary within the ordinary, creating art that possesses a very human, organic beauty.


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Chosil Kil: MY WORK IN GENERAL

What underlies all my work is the process of change. Changing context, changing physical form, changing function. I seek to document everyday events in order to disassociate them from the context within which they have occurred.

Through this disassociation I gain a new level of control over the memory of an event and can place it within a new context, completing the transition from ordinary to extraordinary. It is this transformation that allows me to resolve personal experiences and question everyday occurrences in a new way.

Documentation can take many forms, and has so far included: writing, embroidery, carving into found objects, sound recording, scribbling, drawing, photography, video. In each case a description of my memory of an event becomes immortalised / transferred from the abstract to the concrete.

Once I have control of these events as physical objects or “souvenirs” I can begin to change their context and question their function. This process of change represents a journey of understanding for me - re-evaluating the world around me through my art.

Chosil Kil (b.1975 Seoul Korea) graduated from the Royal College of Art, London 2004. Kil lives and works in London. She was in the collective group “Janfamily” and participated in the book, “Janfamily - Plans For Other Days”, published by Booth-Clibborn Editions. Kil has exhibited at various galleries including Riflemaker Gallery, London (2007); Skuc Gallery, Ljubljana (2006); La Bank, Paris (2006); Nyehaus, New York (2007); Black Block at Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2005); Sundown Salon, Los Angeles (2005). She was short - listed for Jerwood Drawing Prize 2007. Chosil Kil will have a solo exhibition at Cornerhouse, Manchester (February 1st - March 23rd 2008). More about the exhibition: www.cornerhouse.org/art

More information: Hannele Kolsio, producer, +359-50-331 7465, raumars@raumars.org
Chosil Kil, 040 819 0568, chosil@chosilkil.com


Raumars project is supported by Masku - Rauman Kalustetalo Ltd.
Thanks to Old Rauma renovation centre Tammela.