Image © Barakat Contemporary and Sunghwan Kim

Barakat Contemporary presents Sunghwan Kim: Night Crazing, a solo exhibition by New York and Honolulu-based artist Sunghwan Kim. The exhibition is being held from 30 August to 30 Oct 2022.

Based on a critical stance toward issues of modern and contemporary history, social structures, cultural practices, and education systems, Sunghwan Kim weaves together personal histories with fantasies, rumors, politics, and culture; blending media such as installation, video, performance, music, light, and drawings in work in which the exhibition itself becomes art in its own right as it responds to the architecture of its specific setting.

To present the different elements that have recurred in his work over the past two decades, the Night Crazing exhibition will be taking place in mixed media installation form at two locations: Barakat Contemporary 1 (36 Samcheong-ro 7-gil in Seoul’s Jongno District) and Barakat Contemporary 2 (58-4 Samcheong-ro, also in Jongno). Each exhibition space consists of a key video work by Kim, along with drawings and installations that interact with it.