Young Kim

Artist Statement

What Good is Fruit that is not Sweet? is a photography project documenting the life of Kim’s mother, Hyon, as she ages and confronts changes in her health and mobility. It explores their relationship as parent and child and how roles shift as time persists. These circumstances also pose the questions of whether we can quantify or qualify how good a person is at fulfilling a societal role and whether the romanticization of the ‘American Dream’ can influence those parameters. Heavily influenced by the work of William Eggleston and Larry Sultan, this project aims to celebrate daily life with an emphasis on the photographer’s interpretation of events and without rigidity around how the events unfolded. This body of work utilizes the indexical nature of photographs to world-build, create and preserve a past that is nostalgic and reminiscent, regardless of whether it is factual.

Young Kim | Anchorage, AK

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