Richmond, VA
100 West 2nd Floor Studio
In her practice as a video artist, Cecilia Kim incorporates conversations with friends, family, and intimate associates to explore concepts of home,identity, language, and belonging.
Voice and image dialogue with one another in powerfully-somatic ways that destabilize and refresh expectations of traditional documentary filmmaking. Renouncing the literalist attempts to visualize memories within documentary works, Cecilia uses modeling and visual effects software to render the mutating and ephemeral qualities of her interviewers’ memoryscapes. She interposes these digitally-abstracted mental interiors with serene footage of her subjects in natural and domestic spaces.
Residency Focus: Cecilia conducted interviews with fellow resident Janielle Kastner and visual artist Nathalie Alfonso inside the residency building’s contemplative environment. Through Cecilia’s carefully-considered questions, the concept of home is freed from its geographic constraints, allowing the artist to foreground more dynamic explorations of belonging related to people, sensation, spirituality, and presence.