Virginia Bianchi Gallery

Wednesday Kim’s works are the result of her personal experiences and human psychology; she derives imagery from nightmares, intrusive thoughts and childhood trauma in a continuous dialogue between the surface and the intimate, the external and the introspective. Random words and elements she comes across online become obsessive components of her moving images, and contribute to the portrayal of the absurdity of information-saturated contemporary life. As Kim declares, the viewers are invited to play a game of hide and seek by voyeuristically searching for glimpses of the artist in the disturbing scenes she creates, thus forcing the audience to face their own shadows and traumas.

“The dream, like every complex psychic product, is a creation, a piece of work which has its motives, its trains of antecedent associations; and like any considered action it is the outcome of a logical process, of the competition between various tendencies and the victory of one tendency over another. Dreaming has a meaning, like everything else we do.”  C. G. Jung

Giuliana Rosso’s practice involves continuous research on the hidden corners of human conscience. Her pictorial investigation is not explicit and the narrations she conjures are mysterious and allusive. With interests spanning from local tales, symbolism and comics, Rosso deciphers her dreams and visions and transposes them on canvas, representing other-worldly realities inhabited by spirits and inexplicable presences. Rosso’s works with materials such as canvas and paper often with three-dimensional contaminations in a continuous research of the relationship between herself, her work and the (digital, in this case) space.