Lot 652 D

In her series “Inside Out”, Kim In Sook shows views of glass facades and the people behind them, seemingly unaware of being observed. What appears at first sight to be an encountered situation - or an image from an architectural magazine - “Kunstmuseum, Stuttgart”, is in fact the result of months of preparation and elaborate staging. The “visitors of the museum” are extras who were positioned on the steps of the staircase and who had to move at different speeds. On her monitor, the artist composed an extraordinarily detailed overall picture from numerous individual shots.
Markus Brüderlin describes the play with transparency, the public self-staging and the loss of privacy as the Leitmotif within Kim In Sook's oeuvre, which can be understood also as a criticism of architecture and urbanism. The artist makes personal comments on current social developments: "This new phenomenon and the radical social transformation it signifies has, in the meantime, become one of the favorite themes of newspapers around the world, as sociologists, psychologist, urban studies experts and cineastes contribute lively article on the topic." Kim In Sook's photography "hits the bull's eye of this discussion, and its 'window cinema' structure provides a palpable image that shows all at once the radical change in the relationship betweeen the private and the public, intimacy and exhibition - something that usually has to be dealt with in pages and pages of discourse." (Markus Brüderlin: Zur Architektur der modernen Seele am Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts, quoted from: Kim In Sook, Saturday Night, Ostfildern 2009, p. 14)