Kim Farkas
Kim Farkas, 21-13 (HS), Courtesy of the artist, Photo © Gregory Copitet
From car tuning, to cosplay, to hacking, to his Peranakan heritage: an ethnic group from South-East Asia absorbed by cultural smoothing, Kim Farkas borrows from hybrid fields between counter-cultures and laboratories of capitalism. It is the rigour and uniqueness of these practices, paradoxically close to serial production, and their circulation in our liberal economy, that interests him.
By stratifying composite materials, through games of transparency and moiré reflections, he creates worlds within which objects are revealed. Within this internal activity, forms, ideas and materials become conduits of power, both political and spiritual.
Sculptures that look like customised cars, assemblies of ramen bowls in a resin cocoon, incense burners, or organic proto-lamps, his composite shells are in perpetual metamorphosis. Hybrid forms inspired by technology and the body, his works acclimatise to a variety of contexts to better invest and parasitise them.
A French artist, of Peranakan and American origin, born in 1988 and based in Paris, he has graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris. In parallel to his studio production, he founded the publishing house Holoholo in 2012, in collaboration with Naoki Sutter-Shudo.
Kim Farkas has recently exhibited at Downs & Ross (NYC), Galerie les Filles du Calvaire (Paris), Balice Hertling (Paris), Tonus (Paris), Doc (Paris), Shanaynay (Paris), Bagnoler (Bagnolet), Le Confort Moderne (Poitiers), Commonwealth & Council (Los Angeles), From the desk of Lucy Bull (Los Angeles), Utopian Visions (Portland) and U's (Calgary).
He is represented by Dows & Ross Gallery in New-York