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School of The Art Institute of Chicago
By: Kim Walker
MFA in Studio, Sound Department
Kim Walker
Within my practice, I focus on the incongruous: in making the familiar unfamiliar and highlighting beauty within the everyday. I create settings in which the mundane and the ordinary gesture can suddenly invoke existential and poetic meanings.
Being together and apart, being elated and unhappy, being a success and being a failure, and experiencing longing, regret and desire are all concepts that my work is actively questioning.
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Kim Walker, 'Snap', Video Still, 2009.
# 1 [28 November 2009]
I'm just finishing my 1st semester at SAIC and it has been both calm and hectic.
When I arrived I felt extremely fortunate to be within the school and to have the opportunity for another period of time to dedicate to the development of my art practice. Then again I feel that I am out of my depth, in regards to moving from Scotland, attending a university again and making new work.
It has taken me longer to adjust to being out with the UK than I previously thought it would. I'm trying to continue to make what I set out to make and enjoy the security and the critique environment within my department. I don't want negative feelings and homesickness to affect what I create and how I do it.
A traditional card game, Snap plays with image, duration and form. Viewers are rewarded with a glimpse of an action in a similar way that the players within the work are rewarded with winning.