Sejin Kim investigates the complexity of human relationships in contemporary society, focusing on anxiety and conflict that individuals may face in everyday life.  Her main focus is on the psychological space of individuals in their own environment and situation, often alienated and isolated from the mainstream of society. She therefore avoids intervening with her own interpretation, and instead carefully presents what she observes. Many of her works inhabit the boundary between the fictional and the non-fictional, questioning where and what the truth is.

“I’ve been working with a variety of media apparatuses, including documentary realism and the visual narrative to explore various and perplexing relationships in a contemporary society. My works utilise the voyeuristic mechanism of media to show violence in today’s society in a paradoxical manner. Also I attempt to show the result of recording and observation about individual in a modern society. This will chronicle the anxiety and fear, loneliness and alienation, conflict and confusion, and such conditions an individual endures in trying to negotiate his/her existence and identity in a society that sustains itself by placing limitations on its members.”

Kim has an MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art, London, and an MA in Film and Television from the Sogang University, Seoul. She also obtained a BFA in Oriental Painting at the College of Fine Arts, Hongik University, Seoul. Kim has exhibited internationally and presented her fourth solo show 24 HR City in Seoul, in 2009. She was selected for New Contemporaries 2011, and her work is included in various public and insistutional collections, including the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Korea and Art Centre Nabi.