YESUL KIM

Posture Regression Poiesis 16.-28.5.2023

Yesul Kim – sound art
Ville Lehtinen – paintings

Yläkaupungin Yö Sat 27.5.

improvising performances
with guest musicians:
5pm Sami Kontola – percussion
7pm Markku Rinta-Pollari – saxophones, flute

Ville Lehtinen’s (b. 1984) paintings blend pop art and expressionism, creating works with strong contrasts in values and colors. His art is less about the subject and more about the interplay of shapes, lights, and shadows. The limited color palette of two complimentary colors, frequently using magenta and blue, is carefully considered and adds depth to his works. Lehtinen’s use of acrylics and oils creates a tactile and textured experience for the viewer.

Yesul Kim (b. 1991) is a Korean sound artist who uses natural and organic sounds to create a unique and immersive experience. Her interest in the randomness of life and intuitive thinking is reflected in her sound pieces, randomly combined by an algorithm. Her background in architecture influences her artistic ideas, and she creates sound walls, beams, and columns to build a space where the geometry starts to sing.

Together Kim and Lehtinen create a dynamic and engaging exhibition at the intersection of painting and sound art. Lehtinen’s animals are captured in various postures, as if time has suddenly stopped to let us see the raw essence of their being in a magenta-washed dream world. On the other hand, looking at his more abstract works while hearing Kim’s ever-changing, fluctuating soundscape captures the audience itself, as the forms and colours start to move and evolve in a fluid, boundless process, engaging the spectator’s subconscious mind. Finally, as a third layer, Yesul Kim’s sound installation breathes, pulsates and drifts, somewhere a bit more distant, like a naturally alternating inner landscape of human consciousness, bringing us closer to what we really are, or could be, if we stopped more often for a moment to breathe and reflect.