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SOFT SPOT
SOFT SPOT
SCAD MUSEUM OF ART
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA
28 FEBRUARY - 1 AUGUST 2022
The South Korean designer Sang Hoon Kim exhibits works at the SCAD Art Museum with a very distinctive and innovative style and technique. This artist is characterised for developing his pieces with foam, a material that has a special meaning for him, as his family has owned a Korean foam factory for three generations. Thanks to his childhood fascination with this material, Sang Hoon Kim began to explore its possibilities until he became the artist he is today.
The singular style of his pieces is due to the unique treatment of textures and the use of different shapes and perspectives that manage to create pieces that blend into the space. His most recent designs are a real delight. They are made of a memory foam that has been chemically modified so that it can expand and become very dense and expansive. All of them, in different shapes and colours, share his abstract style and a rough, dripping surface texture. They give the impression of being objects that have emerged from nature and have been hidden for years or that have come to the surface from another ecosystem.
South Korean furniture designer Sang Hoon Kim (b. 1979, Seoul) finds inspiration for his works in architecture, and creates pieces that define spaces, focusing on the addition of beauty to an environment. Kim’s interest in architecture has allowed him to apply the methods and elements of architecture to his works. It is Kim’s belief that furniture should be regarded as another dimension of architecture. The pieces he creates are rhythmically geometric in their construction and feature a great deal asymmetrical balance.
His works function not only as space dividing units, but also as a connection between the two spaces; simultaneously possessing harmony and rhythm, along with a sense of haphazard instability.
Kim concentrates on creating different perspectives to experience the space. His pieces are meant to be viewed from all sides and angles, as open and closed; divide and combine; stable and unstable; regular and irregular; bright and dark; and negative and positive space. Kim’s pieces are designed around the form’s movement and their contrasting components. Through these methods Kim expresses his perception of light and movement, as well as communicates through the language of organic forms.
With the ability of bringing dynamism into an environment through his visionary and creative creation, Kim approaches the representation of interactive relationships between lines and sides while also creating a sense of life and movement.
His evolving approach to architecture and the phenomena of nature are expressed in the form of furniture with his "Phenomena" series of products, which are reminiscent of the movement of water, curves in exact places, playing with the concept of light. By merging the movement of light and shadows from countless angles, the kinetic force of light presents unique illusions through reflection, refraction and shadows, considering that the most important tool in Kim's work and his own methodology are based on the high importance that is given to proportions and balances in the division of spaces.