jinmateokim

B. SEOUL, KR
CURRENTLY BASED IN NEW YORK, NY
EMAIL: JINMATEOKIM@GMAIL.COM
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2026
JUN: THE GREENHUT RESIDENCY
MAY: ARTWEEK2026 @BEVERLYS NYC
APR: A YEAR FROM GENESIS @FRISSON GALLERY
MAR: THE STILLEST HOUR @HYACINTH GALLERY

SELECTED WORK

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are we falling in love?

2025

rabbits

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Thriller

2024

installation

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FILTH FEAR FAITH FERAL FLESH

2024

installation

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The Noonday Sun in Zenith

2024

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Little Deaths

2024

SILICA

2024

rabbits

Hate and Glory

2023 (ongoing)

time-based work

your love is enough

2023

dogs

On a motorcycle going 250 mph on a linear track, the body travels in a perpetual state of extremis without ever reaching the fatal end. There is no destination; the drive is the objective, and the speed, bearing a readiness to go beyond the limits of life.

In 2014, Kawasaki announced the Ninja H2R, a track-only motorcycle designed to break the motorcycle industry’s standard top speed of 186mph, delivering a top speed of 250mph. The answer to the dreams of all the speed fanatics is an unhinged culmination of technology and engineering packed into a vehicle that fits below a man’s crotch.

The human condition subjects us to infinite desire within the constraints of finite time. Žižek clarifies that the death of the Self in eroticism does not implicit a claim to immortality. The reversal of negativity is not a new positivity. “‘Negation of negation’ means that even negation fails”; hence, “not only are we not immortal but we are even not mortal, we fail in that endeavor to disappear”(Žižek, 175). The death-drive of riding 250 mph, then, is the relentless persistence of infinite desire, propelling us beyond the boundaries of our finite existence.

AS ABOVE, SO BELOW.