Miru Kim: My underground art explorations
Miru Kim: Kunst im Untergrund
Miru Kim is a fearless explorer of abandoned and underground places. Her photography underscores the vulnerable nature of the human explorer in these no-woman's-lands. Full bio
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um dort ans College zu gehen.
mich sehr für Anatomie
hat meine Neugierde extrem gereizt.
mich auch in New York City.
dass ich die ganze Stadt
betrachten konnte.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Miru Kim - Photographer and explorerMiru Kim is a fearless explorer of abandoned and underground places. Her photography underscores the vulnerable nature of the human explorer in these no-woman's-lands.
Why you should listen
Miru Kim is a photographer and filmmaker with a love of the new and unknown. In her best-known body of work, she investigates left-behind industrial spaces, infiltrates them with her camera, and then photographs herself in the space, nude. Like Wallace Stevens' jar upon a hill, the presence of her small body brings these massive, damp and dirty, unknown spaces into a new focus.
Extending her aesthetic, she has made a film of Strindberg's A Dream Play set in an abandoned tunnel underneath New York City.
Kim also runs a nonprofit called Naked City Arts to promote young local artists in Manhattan.
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