Kim Farkas's installation "23-05" features a sleek, elongated form with a warm, amber glow that suggests an organic, cocoon-like shape. The use of translucent materials and subtle light accents evokes a sci-fi aesthetic, blending natural and futuristic elements. The piece embodies a techno-organic style, emphasizing fluidity and transformation. Farkas's work often explores cultural narratives and diasporic identity, utilizing found objects to create layered sensory experiences, reflecting on globalization's impact on individual and collective memory. ...
Kim Farkas's hybrid, techno-organic sculptures and wall objects evoke science-fiction aesthetics and are imbued with various cultural narratives and rituals. The Paris-born artist, who is of Peranakan and American descent, scans his environment and gathers references that he sees as part of a circular economy of appropriation of cultural codes between different communities. In this way, his sculptures materialize diasporic individuals composed of layers of memory, geography, and economic flows by swallowing various found objects from the real economy of goods and commodities (such as joss paper, dice, mahjong tiles, reiki stones, etc.), which are ultimately reinjected into the symbolic economy of his own sculptural work. ...
