The artist and designer Na Kim explores the intricate interplay between given structures and serendipitous discoveries. She meticulously collects objects and occurrences from daily life, subsequently rearranging them within fictional frameworks. The ‘found fiction’ of an archive is a central aspect of Kim’s process: the shifting or swapping of meaning that occurs when an object is removed from its original context. If details of an object’s former life are lost or forgotten, then fiction arrives to fill the gaps. In Na Kim’s works, language is both doing and undoing, attaching and detaching. Meanings stick and become unstuck. ...
