Kimbokja
Kimbokja’s work stands at the intersection of sculpture, digital media, and the imaginary — a territory where the physical precision of form meets the intuitive logic of dreams. She develops a visual language that is both technically rigorous and emotionally charged, revealing how classical discipline can coexist with a distinctly personal mythology.
Born in South Korea and raised in France, the artist channels this dual cultural background not as identity rhetoric, but as structure — a way of thinking that allows opposites to coexist: science and intuition, silence and intensity, realism and metamorphosis. Her practice suggests continuity between the organic and the synthetic, positioning the body as both subject and landscape.
In recent digital works such as Calm Morning and Gaia, the transition from clay and bronze to the digital canvas feels natural, almost inevitable. The portraits retain the sculptural sense of volume and weight, yet acquire an atmospheric depth that belongs entirely to the virtual. Printed on matte Alu-Dibond, these compositions achieve a rare equilibrium between the material and the immaterial, emphasizing the artist’s control of surface and light.
Kimbokja’s universe resists the sentimental and the ornamental. Instead, it questions presence itself — how an image can appear alive without imitating life, and how emotion can exist without excess. Within the program of Parcus Gallery, her work asserts a precise, intelligent, and coherent voice in the current discourse of contemporary art.
- 10/10/2025
