In Search of Nessie by Kim Shinwook

In Search of Nessie is a limited edition of 300 copies containing 57 photography works created by Shinwook Kim between 2018-2020 and various materials and booklets collected from all over the world. It includes the Italian historian and art critic Rebecca Piva’s ‘In Search of Nessie’ and the machine critic Young Jun Lee’s essay “Photographs, the Real-life Tool Confronting Fabrication: Photographing (the Fabrication of) Nessie” is included in English and Korean booklets. Click here for more details about the project In Search of Nessie.

About Kim Shinwook

Shinwook Kim is an award-winning artist based in Seoul, London, and Milan. Kim received his doctorate degree in Fine Art at University of East London, an MA in Fine Art Photography at Royal College of Art in the UK, and a BA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Within his work, he has been interested in exploring, through detailed observation of, and collecting artifacts from, his surroundings, the effect that place and memory have on humans and their environment. He explores the various invisible stories impacted by specific places and events, and those things that exist but do not show themselves directly. Recently, using ‘placeness’-which gets its meaning from recognition and experience-as a foundation, his interest has moved towards people and places separated from their pasts due to migration and movement, disconnection and destruction, and thus that do not have this sense of ‘placeness’.

He has exhibited and been awarded in the UK, France, Italy, The Netherlands, Belgium, Finland/Sweden, Japan, and South Korea. His works are held in the permanent collection at the MMCA Government Art Bank, Kiyosato Photo Art Museum in Japan, Oriel College, University of Oxford in the UK, GoEun Museum of Photography, KT&G SangSang Madang, Seoul City Hall in South Korea, and many more. Shinwook KIM is an Assistant Professor, School of Photography & Motion Picture, Kyungil University and the artist represented by CE contemporary in Milan, Italy and recently awarded ‘UK Alumni Awards Winner for Culture and Creativity’, British Council, UK.