{"id":20595,"date":"2024-03-21T14:02:13","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T18:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/?page_id=20595"},"modified":"2024-05-02T10:52:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T14:52:38","slug":"yuri-kim","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/yuri-kim\/","title":{"rendered":"Yuri Kim"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2024\/04\/Yuri-Kim-Artist-Statement-Recording.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In the middle of the woods in western Pennsylvania, a young girl experiences a spiritual encounter that will change her life. In other words, it\u2019s another Good Friday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Small communities are a funny thing for a child growing up in one. Sometimes, you are told to do things that you do not particularly understand. Sometimes, you are told that there are certain things that belong to the inside, and other things that belong to the outside. Sometimes, you are taken behind closed doors, and responsible for keeping silent about the things that happen behind them. Sometimes, you\u2019re told that your imagination gets the best of you. Sometimes you agree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Children interpret such events in fascinating ways. These interpretations are often rebutted, degraded, and dismissed by those around them. Sometimes, this is because the way children interpret things is not seen as particularly appropriate for the occasion. Silliness, weirdness, discomfort, inconsistencies and all &#8211; this work embraces these maligned apostles with its arms wide open. It sees the valuable things that lay inside children\u2019s daydreams &#8211; eggs, waiting to be hatched.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This work was made possible through digital animation and compositing. It started from a daydream, then turned into a story. The work parallels my research into the colonial origins of Easter &#8211; both in its roots in Europe as well as its start in Pennsylvania. I found repeated violences in the colonization of pagan traditions, the colonization of children\u2019s innocence, and the colonization of the land. I hope you consider these parallels in the viewing of this work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope that you are comforted. I hope that you are discomforted. I hope that you are reminded. I hope that you forget. I hope that you see. I hope you turn a blind eye. I hope that you find it. I hope that you don\u2019t.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video wp-embed-aspect-16-9\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<lite-youtube videoid=\"drlSqqBHUuk\" params=\"modestbranding=1&#038;rel=0\" playlabel=\"Retreat - Yuri Kim - Senior Thesis Exhibition 2024\" title=\"Retreat - Yuri Kim - Senior Thesis Exhibition 2024\" >\n\t\t\t<\/lite-youtube>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2024\/03\/image2.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"386\" data-id=\"20543\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2024\/03\/image2-900x386.webp\" alt=\"Name of Artist: Yuri Kim\nYuri Kim, Still from Retreat, 2024, digital animation, 3840x1646 pixels\" class=\"wp-image-20543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2024\/03\/image2-900x386.webp 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2024\/03\/image2-400x172.webp 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2024\/03\/image2-768x329.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2024\/03\/image2-1200x515.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2024\/03\/image2-1536x659.webp 1536w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2024\/03\/image2.webp 1919w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Yuri Kim, still from <em>Retreat<\/em>, 2024, digital animation, 3840&#215;1646 pixels<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2024\/03\/image2-1.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"386\" data-id=\"20541\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2024\/03\/image2-1-900x386.webp\" alt=\"Yuri Kim, still from Retreat, 2024, digital animation, 3840x1646 pixels\" class=\"wp-image-20541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2024\/03\/image2-1-900x386.webp 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2024\/03\/image2-1-400x172.webp 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2024\/03\/image2-1-768x329.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2024\/03\/image2-1-1200x515.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2024\/03\/image2-1-1536x659.webp 1536w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2024\/03\/image2-1.webp 1919w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Yuri Kim, still from <em>Retreat<\/em>, 2024, digital animation, 3840&#215;1646 pixels<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the middle of the woods in western Pennsylvania, a young girl&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1626,"featured_media":20543,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-20595","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20595"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20737,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20595\/revisions\/20737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}