Art League Gallery | January 18 – March 23, 2025
Reception | Friday, February 21 | 5pm – 8pm
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.
Cecilia Kim is a video artist living in Indiana, United States. Kim’s video works derive from conversations with friends and family to study invisible spaces and labor. Her narratives blur personal and collective memory. As a transnational Korean woman, she constantly searches for home and belonging. Kim was a Hamiltonian Artists Fellow, WPA Wherewithal Grantee, and Trawick Prize recipient. Her work has been shown in the Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington Biennial; The Immigrant Artist Biennial; The Kreeger Museum, DC; Kaplan Gallery, MD; and Pluripotent Art Space, Seoul, Korea. She received her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and is an assistant professor of film at the University of Notre Dame.
