Kim Hankyul's project Forest_Sound_Motor_ Machine.mov is a multimedia installation that travels across dimensions and resolutions, reality and simulation, sound and visuals. The exhibition actively adapts dissonance as its main method of expression, questioning the truthfulness of media, that is, the platform of representation for culture and identities that we most familiarly encounter in our daily lives.
In terms of both visual and auditory aspects, the work utilises a broad spectrum of materials and technologies at hand, and repurpose them to serve for a plausible but necessarily failing imitation.
Kim Hankyul (b. 1990, South Korea) is a visual artist based in Oslo. He holds a bachelor's degree in Aesthetics from Seoul National University in South Korea and a MFA from the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design at the University of Bergen. In 2022, Hankyul received the Sparebankstiftelsen DNB's Grant for his work in the grant exhibition in Oslo Kunstforening.