Exhibition Reception | ‘Serenade, where nights are long and strange’ by Cecilia Kim

Exhibition Reception |Friday, February 21 | 5 – 8 pm | at the South Bend Museum of Art

Join us for a night of recognition, celebrating Cecilia Kim’s visual concepts of time.

Serenade, where the nights are long and strange is a 4-channel video installation, filmed during a month-long residency in the island of Örö, Finland. Kim documents spaces that testify to our fleeting and impermanent existence, while acclimating herself to a foreign environment. Using the digital projector to light up the long winter nights, Kim’s videos collapse time as she searches for the familiar in the foreign landscape—a place between the documented site and a state of abstraction. The exhibition invites us to hear and see the mystified nocturnal landscape as it is lit up by Kim’s video projections. What may seem ordinary in daylight is transformed anew, as time is visually compressed.