Yula Kim

The Past, the present and the post-humanity
The Bird and The culture

Yula Kim (b.1996, South Korea) is an artist who employs her Third Cultural identity of expression to portray the connection between human cultures and nature through birds and their histories in her artworks. She grew up in Asia (South Korea, China), Polynesia (Hawaii), Africa (Uganda), and Europe (The United Kingdom). These diverse environments have given her ample cultural and environmental experiences to draw upon in her arts.Her inter-continental life has stimulated her ability to see the inherent aesthetics of nature, enlightened her gaze and helped her consider the significance of nature in individual lives, and society, as a whole. She offers a diverse viewpoint in her artwork as she describes the relationships between human desire, cultures and the natural environment.

Yula's artworks have been shown significant exhibitions including the Platinum Jubilee Collection at Kensington Council 2022, and the Tate Modern in Late March 2023. Then, her painting has been chosen to celebrate His Majesty's Coronation and will be digitally presented at Windsor Castle during the Coronation Concert on the 7th of May, 2023.

Yula have previously studied BA Fine Art at Goldsmiths University of London, with being a part of an Interview Panel for student entry selection and Department Student Coordinator at the BA Fine Art Department. Then, she received Distinction award from the Academic Board of Concession and Discipline at the Royal College of Art for her MA dissertation.

Yula's arts are aimed to show a new connection between human cultural development and nature through the human use of bird and how human migration during the colonising period have affected endemic nature. While it is also aimed to consider our morality toward nature from the past and the present time and to relate how birds correspond to the histories of colonization and the consequences on nature and cultural shifts of arts nowadays through artistic practices and the historical connection of endemic birds with human skill and intellectual, cultural development in different places, which are represented by Now-Extinct OO birds in the Hawaiian Islands, and Osprey, who annually migrate from Scotland to Africa.

In her recent works, Yula painted them with the feeling of a poetic abstractive aura to evoke a sense of certainty and imagination in real life.They are composed of poetic abstraction-based painting, with a mixture of abstraction and humanistic historical objects; She juxtaposed/allocated different scenes on one canvas that represent historical connections to the following birds, said to add images of new viruses and add oo's feather cape.

As a painter, she uses lines, figurative and abstract shapes based on nature and urban spaces, vivid colours, and space to express her Third Cultural gaze to see our society and our connection to nature through her art practice, painting. She endeavours to state the cultural hybrid of considering the role of nature and its creatures in today's society in relation to civilisation and the philosophy of aesthetics as well as its influence on the intellectuality in human cultural development. Then, she uses her visual inspirations from birds in different geographies and narrates a new cultural viewpoint to paint a new concept of territory and reveal connections between human culture and nature. She also seeks to mutualise cultures indicating diverse perspectives.

Photography by Claire Ward

These paintings are visual narration of human use of birds, and how birds have responded toward their relationship to the human cultural development and enviroemtonal changes. While it also indicate aesthetics of visual, intellectual, and movement factors that we found it from somewhere beyond mankind, which creates a perceptions to see us and nature in terms of artistic and cultural expressions.

While, they are also aimed to present a new connection between human cultural development and nature through human use of bird, and how human migration during the colonising period have affected on endemic nature. While it is also aimed to consider our morality toward nature from the past and the present time, and to relate how birds are corresponding to the histories of colonisation and the consequences on nature and cultural shifts of arts nowadays.

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Acrylic and Natural Pigment on Canvas

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86cmx130cm per canvas, 86cmx60cm per canvas

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Acrylic and Natural Pigment on Canvas

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190cmx220xm per canvas

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This video is about the feeling of Hawaiian OO to see new comers in their land, and how they were influenced by the changes of Hawaiian environments.

The Life of Osprey – This video is about the migrational life of osprey, and the narration of how ospreys sees the history of colonisation and trade, and changeable relationship between between human and nature.

These videos are the first person narrative videos to express the non-human creature's feeling upon the enviroemtonal changes, and the historical shifts in the territories of birds during the colonising period. It is to state out how non-human creatures narrate a new perception to see the historical connections of human cultural and economical flow and endemic nature's changes over the time.

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Bibliography

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RRNXBBeSsaylUPjqGVbssEDkBWOZlZrl/edit?usp=share_link&ouid=117990164441487141892&rtpof=true&sd=true

sources for text and some images that are used in both Videos

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Joshua Shea

Joshua Shea is a professional actor and he is known for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) and The Royals (2015). He was the narrator of OO bird and Osprey in terms of express their feelings in humanistic language forms.

Louis Enright

Louis Enright is a composer who is currently taking the course BMus Composing at the Royal College of Music . Although, he compose background sounds for both videos, which is mixture of birds sound and musical expression of different instruments.

Keziah Samuel

Keziah is a Writer and she has been studied MA Writing at Central Saint Martins. Her role was to edit the script for the narration, and assist to smoother the sentences and descriptions.

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Video Art

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This net is composed with 1000s of lines that create a tension between spaces, which reminds the feeling to space, territory and border.

While, the tension between lines create a strength that holds the sculpture stable.

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PLA 3D Print

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180cmx183cm

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Projection of No.A on the LED Board and Windsor Castle during the Coronation Concert, the Royal Collaboration

'No.A' was presented during the Coronation Concert for Charles III in a form of digital painting, and this artwork was being used to open the concert section The Royal Collaboration.

This artwork was inspired by upper viewpoint of the sky and aesthetics of natural colours from diverse stars and galaxies in the sky, and the artworks is to visualise our idea of love and unity, and indicate some connections between our feelings, nature and humanity. The colours and the outline of sky shape was created based on Yula’ experience of Mauna Kea’s star gazing when she lived in Hawaii.

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Digital Art

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Projection of No.A on the LED Board and Windsor Castle during the Coronation Concert, the Royal Collaboration

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