MOMO KIM
<a miniature garden>
10x 10cm
Gouache, acrylic, gauze and earth-based material on canvas
2026
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'The artist’s tulip paintings layer gauze, earth-like material, and white over vivid color, submerging form as it moves from figuration to abstraction. In Tulip Chapter 2, Momo Kim’s mutated tulips expand beyond personal narrative into a broader social voice. Medical gauze symbolizes “mutation” and “survival,” while, with an earth-like material, it evokes human fragility and vitality. As the tulips fade into white, their traces reveal unseen depth, and covering them becomes not an act of erasure, but a refinement—like brown clay becoming white porcelain—returning to an inner essence.'
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MOMO KIM
< Endless garden (1) >
22.7x15.8 cm (SM)
Mixed on canvas
2026
“In my recent works, layers of color are repeatedly covered with white and sand-like textures.
While traces of inner emotions briefly emerge through painting, they are gradually concealed again through the act of covering.
Using materials such as white and sand — elements close to nature — these emotional traces are softened and neutralized, leaving only faint marks on the surface.
As a result, the painting appears as if it carries the dust of time —
although it is newly made, it somehow feels aged.”
