Titled Gyre, the exhibition curated by Young-chul Lee is inspired by a 1919 poem by William Butler Yeats called ‘The Second Coming’, in which the Irish poet describes how a ‘widening gyre’ would unleash anarchy unto the world. (…) The spectacular installations reflect the artist’s transdisciplinary practice fusing art, literature, mythology, philosophy and science, and unfold around three themes: The Swollen Suns, The Path of Gods and The Great Outdoors. At the center of the exhibition is the 50-meter-long Chroma V (2022). Tangled in one big knot, the snake-like sculpture links all the artworks and the surrounding spaces together, like the central nerves that connect different parts of the body. As it receives signals from another exhibit, Argos – The Swollen Suns, the sculpture begins to pulsate and breathe. (Myers, 2022)

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Behind Chroma V is Kim’s site-specific drawing Gyre (2022), which illustrates the ‘world as a labyrinth’ where matter, time, objects and beings interact and co-exist. (Myers, 2022)

“Gyre marks the (in)visible paradigm shifts of our present time, where one era ends and a new one begins, like the ends and the beginnings of a continuous spiral. We are at the “swollen” boundaries of complex political, cultural, social, and existential entanglements, accelerated by the aftermath of the pandemic, human-machine dilemmas, ecological disasters, to warfare – all a shadow of the anthropocentric condition of the world. At the periphery of these tensions is the world viewed through the lens of materials, where objects, beings, and nature all co-exist on an equal footing.” (e-flux, 2022)