Hannah Kim

My practice starts from my own experiences and memories about the houses I lived in. A desire to remember and recall them to be more exact. When I try to recall my old houses which have been already vanished, there are just a few numbers and letters floating around on the inside of me. I've been creating a sort of imaginary and nostalgic space that allows me to remember my previous houses endlessly. It's joyous but grieves me as well as this is something about the absence.

What I try to recall from the houses is not only how they looked but all about my feelings, thoughts, and even some little events that happened there. They become a thread of narratives whilst I put some colours, dots, splashes, and sort of figures relating to memories on the canvas quite spontaneously. Each unit in the painting functions as an index which allows me to track specific places and memories in the house. Painting is the process of mapping the memories about the house for me in this sense.