Hanmi Gallery are pleased to announce ‘Bate’s Room’, Shin Kiwoun’s exhibition at The Old Police Station.

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Shin Kiwoun’s work explores the concepts of time, existence, reality, and illusion. In series’ such as Reality Test, Shin does this by dramatically decelerating time in short video installation films. In slow, high definition, Shin presents us with crash events that replace people with children’s toys and objects from popular culture. With seconds stretched into minutes, viewers are given long deliberation on every movement and detail of the destruction. Splattered liquid, shattered glass, human reactions, all provide intense and individual precise interest, and can be depthfully analysed. This unnatural or peculiar perspective, alongside the virtual distance inherent in video media does however imply the importance of our removal – we can synthesize the meticulous specificity of the event without having to experience its consequences. This allows Shin to come back to the ponderence on reality. The exhibition runs from the 15th December – 5th January 2016.

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Shin Kiwoun was born in 1976 in Korea and graduated from Seoul National Univervsity with both a BA and an MA in Sculpture. He then came to London and graduated from Goldsmiths in 2010. Shin has exhibited in both London and Seoul and won the JoongAng Fine Arts Prize in 2007 and was part of the Bloomberg New Contemporaries in 2010.