Tuesday, October 27, 2009
"I Steal Things All The Time, It's Just Something I Do"-Creed
The Artist Kyungah Kim recently had a fascinating, or maybe sarcastic, exhibition. Well, it all "started when she realized the oozing hypocrisy behind the sophistication and the discrepancy between the original location of the artifacts and collections of the world-renowned big museums." Basically, it doesn't make sense for countries to display artifacts of other countries. And I don't think that sentence I quoted made sense either, but my good grammar senses are being dulled. So for the past ten years, she traveled the world, and stole stuff. She would steal a coffee mug from a Korean cafe, and replace it with one in France. Or she would take a salt shaker from one hotel in Hawaii, and replace it at another hotel in Hawaii, keeping the left over. She took pictures of the switches, displayed the stolen items, did some paintings, an instillation piece, and even a video. who does that? awesome.
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