17/01/2025
The Korean bundles are usually made with traditional, coloured patterns, but in 2017 Kimsooja challenges the design of these bundles by using plain black and white. The absence of colour transcends the usual bundle; it revokes the life, dreams, suffering and absence of those who wore these clothes.
Kimsooja, 'A Laundry Woman', 2000, site specific installation consisting of 27 Korean Bedcovers, 5 bottaris, and 6 fans, installation view at Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein, 2017. Photo by Aaron Wax, Collection of the Musee d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France, Courtesy of Musee d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France and Kimsooja Studio
“Bottari is an abstraction of a person, an abstraction of society and history, and that of time and memory. It is past, present, and future.”
- Kimsooja