Reading 01 · Cardboard sculpture

Cardboard sculpture, set in motion.

Folded card is the humblest material in the studio. Here it becomes a helmet, a mountain, a companion drone and a machine that stores memory.

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The reading

In these nine loops by Kims Ki, cardboard is never disguised. Its folds, cut edges and brown fibre stay visible, and that honesty is the point: the sculpture is made from what is at hand, then asked to carry a myth.

The sequence moves from the body outward. It begins with a head pressed inside a folded helmet, opens into radiating masks and headdresses, grows a landscape on top of the skull, and ends with objects that have a life of their own — a hexagonal drone and a cardboard organ that the figure plays like an archive.

Each work is a short animated loop. The motion is not decoration: it is what turns a construction into a character. A hat becomes weather, a box becomes a companion.

The nine works

9 animated loops

Seated figure in black whose head is covered by a folded cardboard helmet, hands pressing against it — **Pressure figure**2018A compressed body turns thought into weight.

Figure wearing a radiating mask made of cardboard strips and yellow triangles — **Solar inspection**2020A face assembled from fragments performs an act of seeing.

Seated figure holding a small blue object, wearing a large ornate cardboard headdress — **Portable altar**2020The seated figure holds a dense private cosmos.

Figure in a fringed cardboard mask holding out a small green plant — **Offering hand**2019A folk mask and a tiny plant make exchange ceremonial.

Figure wearing a cardboard mountain with paper leaves as a hat, and 3D glasses — **Landscape head**2019A complete environment is worn as a face.

Figure with a cardboard pyramid head and paper leaves, floating above clouds — **Cloud pilgrim**2019Figure and weather merge without explanation.

Seated silhouette in a pointed cardboard cone hat holding a small wand — **Dark signal**2019A pointed silhouette turns a domestic tool into magic.

Masked figure beside a handmade hexagonal cardboard drone — **Cardboard drone**2019A handmade machine becomes a companion rather than a prop.

Masked figure pressing keys on a cardboard machine with a coloured screen — **Archive organ**2019The creator operates a cardboard memory machine.

Cardboard sculpture, set in motion.

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