With her installation To Breathe – Zurich Kimsooja inscribes her work in the architecture of the Tschudi Gallery. She utilizes the architectural surfaces of the space as the material support for her «painting». All the windows facing the street have been covered in light-diffraction grating film: «This particular film has thousands of vertical and horizontal lines in every inch. It has a woven …
With her installation To Breathe – Zurich Kimsooja inscribes her work in the architecture of the Tschudi Gallery. She utilizes the architectural surfaces of the space as the material support for her «painting». All the windows facing the street have been covered in light-diffraction grating film: «This particular film has thousands of vertical and horizontal lines in every inch. It has a woven structure and functions like a prism, creating iridescent light when light passes through it.» (Kimsooja in conversation with Hou Hanru, 2017). The artist also tiled the floor of the gallery with mirror …
