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Handi Kim

 Very Handy - Handi's name transition

Hoya Lee wanted to make her daughters name Salgu (apricot) as she could only eat apricot while she was pregnant. However, it was common for a man to name the baby, so eventually she was named by her father's older brother. He named her Hyunji (live smartly/cleverly)! Hyunji became HyunD when she was a high school girl. The reason? She was too lazy to spell out her whole name. Sooner or later, her friends started to call her '핸디' (Handi) with no specific reason. And people around her also started to call her as Handi. After moving to the Netherlands, she chose by herself to keep 'Handi' as her designer name.

I am from South Korea
Currently based in the Hague, Netherland.

Education
 2017 -
Graphic Design at Royal Academy of Art, the Hague(KABK), Netherland

2014-2016
Ceramic Craft at Kookmin University, Seoul, South Korea

Participation
 Digi.gxl (Int) | Fflaghigh! FDSC summer workshop (KR) | Bergen Art Book Fair (NO)
| Bergen Art Book Fair mini talk (NO) | The Seoul illustration fair (KR)
| Exhibition Royal Cult Club in KABK gallery(NL) | Exhibition Untopian Cultural Herritage
in the Grey Space (NL) | Exhibition Gaps, Margins & Fillers
in KABK Gallery (NL)

Commission
 Illustration for Polyesterzine (UK) | Exhibition Identity design for Ssangssangstudy (KR)

Work/Internship
 2014-2016
Chief Assistant of designer ‘Yomsnil’ (KR)

Features
 Itsnicethat(2020)
Polyesterzine(2017)

Pickle
Created a sub-culture called ‘Pickle’ boycotting the big data system. Questioning on our attitude towards this system, we ask for being critical on this society dependent on virtual datas. Identifying ourselves, we designed masks that display us without being judged with the binary eyes(big data). “We are playful and unpredictable. We often make fun of the big data, especially if it is pompous and condescending. But it doesn’t mean that we want to stop sending data to it or not using digital anymore. Just don’t want to follow without consciousness. Be in a pickle, unknown you!“

In Collaboration with Mika Schalks

🎬👀Let's go to see the M/V!

Pickle

Sonyeo
Questioning about Korean Idol industry, I created a myth about advent of 5 goddesses from a dead girl who was forced to be a sacrifice by the society, and visualised it in 3 different visual languages: Illust/Video/3Drendering The un-beuatiful society dares to ask ‘beautiful’ girls To deal with shaking hands with thousands of not knowing people To smile and cry whenever people want To not be complete forever To be beautiful like a flower To be a sacrifce happily

“Sing a song for us on the altar to worship 5 goddesses. The goddesses, who were born in a dead girl, will always be with us! Sing a song descenders, for us! Dance, sing and worship your sacrificed ancestor!”

🎬👀Let's go to see the film!

Sonyeo

Replikka!
This project is started by one question where my first account is now. Being in trouble with finding the account which is still ‘alive’ in the net-world, I stated questioning how many duplicated ‘I’ exist in the cyber world, who can be real or fake ‘me’, who owns the authentic identity, and who can judge which one is right or which one is wrong.

Replikka!

Dear, Appa(Papa)
I and my papa never try to talk deeply how we think about each other. It was certain that there’s a huge distance between us. We knew about it, but never spell it out. For 2 hours in front of a small screen, for the first time, we finally confront our fears to get hurt from each other. What I found clearly from the dialogue was his insecurity. Like any literature that describes father’s back as a mountain, he was a ‘father’ who I cannot reach and understand forever. But the person in front of me was Young Myeong Kim who all the time wanted to keep his own place so badly. He said that he has a huge fear to be lost his position and being faded out from the society(us). The vest he wears is a symbol of his insecurity. All the badges on the surface of the vest seem to be higher, solemn and scary to reach. But all the contents in it show his weakened and insecure parts. His aura as ‘father’ is scratched and faded out so easily. The last sentence by him was, “This society definitely makes me change. Maybe someday I will call myself feminist, but I hope that time comes later very later……”

Dear, Appa(Papa)

Replikka! 3A3
This project is started by one question where my first account is now. Being in trouble with finding the account which is still ‘alive’ in the net-world, I stated questioning how many duplicated ‘I’ exist in the cyber world, who can be real or fake ‘me’, who owns the authentic identity, and who can judge which one is right or which one is wrong.

Replikka!

Finding A Rainbow
I created a fairytale about a girl who wants to possess a rainbow. 3 journeys that she explores are finding a rainbow in a dream, finding a rainbow in a poem and finding a rainbow in an alchemist’s lab. Then I visualised one of her journeys (finding a rainbow in a dream) through HTML webpage.

🌈Let's enter the dream.

Find A Rainbow

Demolishing
How were women depicted in the greek mythology? how about disabled people? then about LGBT? about minority? How were these people treated in the ancient greek society? How similar are this ancient society and society now? Who are excluded from this very sturdy and solid structure of the society? What if the excluded individuals gather together against this solidness? And, by them, how will the existing structure be changed?

Maybe, by us, the society now has already been demolished, just like the legendary societies in the past that were at last decayed.

Inspiration :Choosing the margin as a space of radical openness by Bell Hooks

Demolishing

Ensemble of Intersection
On the road, a car’s front light is turned on to change the lane. On the bike road, a biker is turning left while pointing her left arm to the left side. Next to her, some pedestrians are waiting for the traffic light turning green to cross the street. A tram traffic light is blinking with alarming sound to notify that soon a tram is arriving. On the intersection, how many different languages exist? And if the languages are tangible, how do they look like? I designed 4 languages in costumes and motion, and performed on the intersection.

🎬👀Let's go to see the performance!

Ensemble of Intersection

About An Apple
This could be about my very corny first-love story, could be a myth a middle school girl’s regret who could never express her feeling towards her love becoming a nightmare, could be a fictional story from an imagination where my dimple on my face came from. Anyway, it is definitely an Apple is the main character.

About An Apple

Odd Land
Welcome to the Oddland. If you dare to find a mysterious statue of two Cheshire cats, the entrance will let you enter in this weird and uncanny world. You will have an amazing experience here! Sun and rain at the same time! Dogs and birds poop like rain! Catcallings with dirty fetish! R a c i s m! Hope you have a very pleasant time with us.

Once I found one really weird and suspicious looking statue of a cat near my place. By it, I directly started imagining of a story finding an entrance to a weird world. Collecting various stories from people who moved to the Netherlands and had some weird experiences, I created a imaginative theme park by the stories.

Odd Land

Untold Story
This is an untold story before.
By now, I share a story about a feminist who live next to you.
It is not told anymore.

How many great women artists got told by others. How many great women designers got inscribed in the history books. This small story (or a statement) was create by this question.

Untold Story

Image Experiments
Multiple experiments for creating images using some skills of photograph.

Comissioned by Ssangssangstudy

Count Your Sheep
Imagine one night when you cannot fall asleep easily. You might have a hard time in your rectangular bed. You might feel the sound of the clock becomes a constant noise. You might start having a train of thought towards bad things : Anxiety, jealousy and depressing might come to you. At last, you might start counting sheep. A sheep is jumping over the fence. Second one is jumping over the fence. Third one…… Wait, by the way, why do we count sheep when we cannot sleep?

Count Your Sheep

Commision for Ssanssangstudy
Designed 4 posters, moving images and brochures for three events below.
'More than Lamb Skewer in Daerim-dong' DJ party,
《Running Room》 and 《Nothing to My Name(一無所有, 일무소유)》

SSangssang

Quarantine day 1 to 4
Negative!
36.4 - 36.1 - 36.9 - 36.1 degree
Literally got locked!
Ma parents and I have a video call at home!
The only moment that I can escape from the room is when I go to the toilet. Even, I need to wear a mask and gloves.

All the people who came back from abroad should be in self quarantine for 2 weeks whether the result is negative or not.

Quarantine