Disappearing act: Atta Kim, On-Air Project, Monologue of Ice (24 Hours). 2004
The photographs that comprise Atta Kim's On-Air Project (2004-2006), are visually striking, haunting, lurid phosphorescences. Many of the photographs, taken using the time-lapse photography method, render the luminous halos of their subjects. For example, in the photograph above, Monologue of Ice, Kim recorded the adumbrations of a melting block of ice over 24 hours.
Kim also photographs a couple during sexual intercourse in a similar manner, this time lapsing one hour . The hazy image, similar in color and composition to Monologue of Ice, brings to mind the enmeshing of the cosmos, the fantastic imagery of Blake, even the creation of Man on Michelangelo's frescoed ceiling. The metaphysical element of the photographs emerges. Kim captures an ethereal kind of poetry, a dance between duration and simultaneity, the sacrosanct and chaos of decomposition, consummation.
Perhaps the most apocryphal and referential image of the series is Kim's rendition of The Last Supper, which recreates the biblical dinner of Jesus and his apostles, down to the bare architectural detail, in the style of a religious panel.
Atta Kim, On-Air Project, The Last Supper. 2003
Atta Kim, On-Air Project, Sex Series (1 Hour). 2003.
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