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Soo Sim

Soo Sim is an artist from Seoul, Korea who wants to look at uncertainty and chaos as the dark side of his generation, through various contexts.


Show Location: Battersea campus: Studio Building, Third floor

Soo Sim-statement

I want to talk about uncertainty faced by myself, my friends, and my generation. My journey in this project reflects who we are. It is not a concept but a layered context with talk with friends, raving, philosophy, and my Korean background.

Intertwining with philosophy Martin Heidegger’s Throwness(Geworfenheit) & Projection(Entwurf), I wanted to use paradoxical function and a poetic approach to the design process. I drew self-defensive soldiers who are exhausted but angry, fragile but strong and wandering between adult and adolescent. For me, uncertainty is duplicity, paradox, and chaos.

In terms of the design process, I tried to make protective gear with no protective function with a paradoxical approach. I made spiral-shaped soft material with moulding technique and wrapped it with leather. I mixed fragile jersey and leather, layered see-through jersey and did sprial-shaped pattern cutting to show duplicity and uncertainty.

As my work comes from some raw energy of communities, I explored with my musician, DJ, photographer and model friends on this journey. Through this project, I realized that uncertainty is a fear of ego and is, in fact, the first step towards freedom, and action of resistance in which we come to enjoy chaos, decide intuitively, and trust our gut. 

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Project "Throwness" is the first documentation of this journey

Collaborated with Nikolai Ahn

From midnight to 4 a.m.

Drunk in cheap whiskey

About lethargy

Existences as being 'thrown' into the world

Material Development
Material DevelopmentMoulding technique
Process 1
Process 1Layered Tights
Process 2
Process 2
Process 3
Process 3Prototypes
Process 4
Process 4Groin Protector and Boots Gaiter
Process 5
Process 5Mokyo and Sascha Schneider
Prorcess 6
Prorcess 6Test with RCA hoodie
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Preview
Preview
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Look 1-8
Look 1-8Photo Jun Yang / Cast Mahlon Sugawara / Video Soo Sim
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