Kim Beom at LACMA, Los Angeles

Group Show; Your Bright Future

Kim Beom's installations mix cryptically humorous sculptural objects, videos, and small ink drawings in settings that recall domestic spaces. An Iron in the Form of a Radio, a Kettle in the Form of an Iron, and a Radio in the Form of a Kettle (2002)—composed of three objects on a single shelf—is exactly what its title proclaims.
For Untitled (News) (2002), Kim painstakingly edited together television news broadcasts into short clips that change what the reporters were saying.
Their statements vacillate between the inane and the poignant. Kim also produces artist's books, such as Noonchi (2009). Often text alone, they hold tales that have the quality of fables.