DONG KYU KIM
  • Artwork
    • Becoming American
    • Consuming Memories
    • My Body is a Battleground
    • Shape of You
    • Temporarily Qualified
    • Officially Void
    • The Most Famous Stripes
    • The United Stitches
  • Exhibitions
    • My Body is a Battleground 2022
    • Everything Must Go 2022
    • Becoming American 2022
    • The Stranger in Heaven 2020
    • Consuming Memories 2020
    • American Stitches 2019
  • STATEMENT
  • BIO/CV
  • Contact

Consuming Memories

 The works in this series are composed of receipts collected between 2008 and 2018 in Fort Lee, NJ, New York City, as well as from Mexico City, Mexico and Seoul, South Korea. More recent works in the series such as Consuming Memories # 17 are composed of cardboard and promotional stickers acquired from the Supreme store in New York City over the course of a year and hand-stitched together with thread.
Consuming Memories #17, 2023, cardboard, stickers, thread, 64 x 34.5 x 2 inches
Consuming Memories #17 (detail), 2023, cardboard, stickers, thread, 64 x 34.5 x 2 inches
Consuming Memories #14, 2021, the artist's worn face mask, paper receipts, thread, 37 x 37 inches
Consuming Memories #14 (detail), 2021, the artist's worn face mask, paper receipts, thread, 37 x 37 inches
Consuming Memories #11, 2020, paper receipts, tickets, thread, Swiffer microfiber cloths, 36 x 24 inches
Consuming Memories #11 (detail), 2020, paper receipts, tickets, thread, Swiffer microfiber cloths, 36 x 24 inches
Consuming Memories #6, 2018, paper receipts, thread, Swiffer microfiber cloths, 31 x 31 inches
Consuming Memories #6 (detail), 2018, paper receipts, thread, Swiffer microfiber cloths, 31 x 31 inches
Consuming Memories #5, 2018, paper receipts, tickets, thread, Swiffer microfiber cloths, 25 x 25 inches
Consuming Memories #5 (detail), 2018, paper receipts, tickets, thread, Swiffer microfiber cloths, 25 x 25 inches
Consuming Memories #8, 2017, paper receipts, thread, Swiffer microfiber cloths, 49 x 25 inches
Consuming Memories #8 (detail), 2017, paper receipts, thread, Swiffer microfiber cloths, 49 x 25 inches
© COPYRIGHT DONG KYU KIM 2024
  • Artwork
    • Becoming American
    • Consuming Memories
    • My Body is a Battleground
    • Shape of You
    • Temporarily Qualified
    • Officially Void
    • The Most Famous Stripes
    • The United Stitches
  • Exhibitions
    • My Body is a Battleground 2022
    • Everything Must Go 2022
    • Becoming American 2022
    • The Stranger in Heaven 2020
    • Consuming Memories 2020
    • American Stitches 2019
  • STATEMENT
  • BIO/CV
  • Contact