Space 776 is pleased to present Memento Vivere – What One Wants a solo exhibition of paintings and assemblages by South Korean artist Kyung Tae Kim, whose main focus is to explore the relationship between objects and spaces by using found objects as material and putting it in a dialogue with the space throughout the entire composition. These compositions are recordings of the different moments in the artist’s life and represent his inspirations, memories, desires, obsessions, interests, positive and negative thoughts, reality and imagination, consciousness, and unconsciousness.
Memento Vivere – What One Wants
‘Memento Mori’, a symbolic trope, serves as a reminder of the inevitability of death. Latin for “remember you must die”, the phrase insinuates that worldly pleasures, including life itself, are at best, transient. With a shift of emphasis, one can argue that its contemporary counterpart is YOLO, the acronym for “you only live once” (and so, indulge while you can). There is also the term ‘Memento Vivere, which means “remember to live”, supposedly created as a direct counterpart of ‘Memento Mori.
