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WEDNESDAY KIM, Protect me from what I want (part of Dokkaebi project), 2025

WEDNESDAY KIM, Protect me from what I want (part of Dokkaebi project), 2025

Archival Pigment Print

11 x 17 in

Edition of 15 + AP 

Signed and numbered by the artist

Accompanied by a certificate from Always Art

 

In Korean folklore, Dokkaebi are mischievous beings born from the spiritual possession of discarded objects; old tools, household items, etc. Protect Me From What I Want is a digitally rendered 3-D environment from Wednesday Kim’s ongoing project Screeched Dreams, which reimagines this myth through the lens of digital culture, e-waste, and compulsive consumption. Kim creates a contemporary Dokkaebi born from her old 2G slide phone, a discarded device charged with personal history and data. The figure, with spiked hair, sunglasses, and an axe, stands amid tangled cables, glossy black stones, and glowing red light, a visual ecology of technological waste and memory. Across the image, hazy text spells the title, a plea suspended between desire and dread.

BIO: Wednesday Kim is an interdisciplinary artist and a co-founder of De:Formal Online.She is from Seoul, South Korea and is currently based out of California. Kim works with a mixture of analog and digital media including 3D animation, video, performance, installation, print, and sculpture with clusterfuck Aesthetic. Her work is informed by personal experiences and human psychology; she derives imagery from nightmares, intrusive thoughts, and childhood trauma. Furthermore, she portrays the absurdity of information-saturated contemporary life in a surrealist fashion through wordplay, Wikipedia, voyeurism, and witticism. 

€175,00 EUR
€175,00 EUR
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Paper

Archival print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308gsm

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Edition of 15.

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Rip Space is an independent art and technology platform based in Los Angeles dedicated to supporting experimental, cross-disciplinary practices. Founded in 2023 by curator Vera Petukhova with hacker and futurist John Threat and run in collaboration with researcher and theorist Maisa Imamović, Rip Space operates as both a physical and digital node for artists working at the intersection of visual art, new media, sensory design, and critical technology.

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