Cherry Carta Kim (Seoul, 2000) is a multidisciplinary filmmaker and artist based in Turin/Amsterdam.
Her practice integrates concepts from philosophy, media theory, dreamscape, rituals and religions. Her works investigate spirituality and ethics of living with/in new technology, such as A.I., web 3.0, and post-post-…-post internet art.
By engaging a personal interplay of tension between principles and independence, she explores how dreams, fantasy and creativity originate the human condition. She hopes to create a feedback loop through her works that can facilitate meaningful interaction between human and technology.
Butterfly Dream
Short Film
2025
I went out drinking at a local bar with all my friends.
The same faces, same wine, same laughter.
Then I went to the bathroom to pee.
I flushed, got up to wash my hands.
I looked up in the mirror, I saw myself.
Everything good.
Tipsy.
but then I felt so incredibly weird looking at my face..
I can’t explain what made me uncomfortable.
But I thought if I took one more second into the mirror, I would actually go crazy.
It didn’t feel nice.
I was too tipsy to get out of my head, so I quickly opened the door and fled.
My hands were still wet but I didn’t care.
I don’t think I can play it down anymore.
Like I have to do something about it ASAP.
Cross Dimensional Space
Installation (PVC plastic vinyl, hemp rope, plaster,
4 minutes video on loop on analogue TV)
2024
KABK
(Royal Academy of Art The Hague),
NL
Cross Dimensional Space explores the connection between body and mind through a play of tension.
With the unprecedented speed at which humans and technology intertwine, our minds crave limitless growth. In a world where she struggles to identify a coherent belief system, the artist turns to self-discipline and physical ritual to anchor down her floating mind. Using Shibari techniques the artist explores the co-dependence of restriction and liberation, and thereby begins to balance the tension between body and mind.
A comfort emerges through the process of turning mindless action into routine. Slowly and unwaveringly, it transforms the fear of the unknown into a place of home.
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- Repositioning KABK: What is the shifting role of artists and
- institutions in the post-post-post…-post-internet age?
- Thesis
- 2024
This thesis sits itself in the ecosystem of Dutch and European contemporary art which inhabits institutions, academies, art students, artists, and the internet. It questions the current functionality and ethics of the legacy affiliated with the capital power and hierarchical system in institutions, and their lack of discourse and attention to the effects of the rhizomatic landscape of the internet. As a student of the Royal Academy of Art The Hague, in the Netherlands (KABK), I attempt in Repositioning KABK, especially investigating what the shifting role of art students and art institutions in the post-post-post-…-post-internet age.