From Left: Jin Mateo Kim, Cognize and Execute, 2024, Steel wire, linen thread, Dimensions variable / Your Love Is Enough, 2023, Gouache and colored pencils on mulberry paper, 21 x 21x 1.5 in /  Fever 2, 2023, Graphite on mulberry paper, 9 x 13 x 0.5 in / Fever 1, 2023, Graphite on mulberry paper, 9 x 7 x 0.5 in. /  This kind of nights 3, 2023, Graphite and gouache on mulberry paper, 9 x 11 x 0.5 in. ⓒParis Koh Fine Arts

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“I’m often drawn to works of subtle menace. Jin Mateo Kim‘s portraits draw you in with interesting likenesses, then unsettle you with inscribed lines like ‘I’ll kill you.’ Meanwhile, Mateo Jin Kim offers delicate-looking paper buildings with internal drawings of what you assume are ordinary domestic scenes—until you look more closely and discover that something is perversely “off” in these conventional dwellings. That sense of psychological wounding is quietly reinforced by the straight pins that hold the structures together.”

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