"Currently an Artist in Residence at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Lucy Kim engages with the question of vision and representations the human body, as well as recorded observations of embodiment and simulacra that conjure awe and absurdity. In her process, she's steadfast about experimentation, and she's now working on painting with the use of melanin (or eumelanin derived from cuttlefish ink), as pigments. As an interdisciplinary artist, Kim is primarily interested in panting, but her influences also derive from what she has described as "the authoritative presence" of photography. Through sculpture inspired by photography, she expresses an interest in portraying "presence without aesthetics." Kim combines mold-making and casting with painting, and her recent work in the ICA included direct, silicon molds of a plastic surgeon, a fitness trainer, and a geneticist, flattened into a chosen arrangement for a final mold, then compressed from 3D to 2D. By facilitating transition through compression, she's distilling presence and creating transformed, uncanny, sci-fi like specimens..."
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