Yiyeon Kim
Argo x RCA Residency
Yiyeon Kim works with installation, performance, and kinetic structures. Her practice examines how rules and systems embedded in everyday environments organise and direct our behaviour. Starting from familiar objects and spaces, her work creates situations in which the structure of sculpture shifts through the movement and choices of the viewer. These moments reconfigure how the world is perceived and question how rules and instructions quietly discipline the everyday body.
At the centre of Yiyeon’s practice is an impulse to unsettle and disrupt imposed order. Kinetic elements and audience interaction play a central role in her work. The sculpture does not remain fixed but continuously changes within installed and performative situations. For her, sculpture is not a finished object but a process formed together with the viewer through action and response. Through interaction, movement and position shift, and rules appear not as stable systems but as fluid conditions.
Desire, discomfort, and impulse emerge unexpectedly through the viewer’s interaction. These sensations prompt a reconsideration of how fragile the rules imposed by the world can be. Her work allows moments in which the assumptions we take for granted are sensed again, as something unfamiliar.
