Figure in a spiked paper sun mask and a suit of printed paper, with red gloves
Material myths · 2016

Solar armour

The body becomes a vessel for a sharp celestial emblem.

Figure in a spiked paper sun mask and a suit of printed paper, with red gloves.

Artist
Kims Ki
Year
2016
Form
paper sun mask and printed-paper suit, animated loop
Constellation
Material myths
Readings
Mask art
Original
GIPHY ↗

In the constellation

Silhouette beside curling ribbons of printed packaging paperapparatusWild apparatusFigure covered from head to torso in a lattice of printed paper, wearing a red hatarmourSecond skin

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