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소비 이후, 남겨진 것들이 묻다
After Consumption, the Remnants Ask
​김동규
Jan 9 (Fri) ~ Feb 21 (Sat) 2026
THE GREEN Gallery

Exhibition Details

When

Jan 9 ~ Feb 21, 2026

Opening Reception

Jan 9 (Fri), 2026 5pm

소비 이후, 남겨진 것들이 묻다

김동규 작가의 작품은 일상 속 소비 행위에서 발생하는 잔재들과 축적된 일회용품을 재료로 구성된다. 로스앤젤레스를 기반으로 활동하는 패션 디자이너이자 섬유 예술가인 작가는, 곧 폐기될 이 사물들이 사실은 우리의 이동 경로와 선택, 취향, 그리고 자본주의적 욕망의 구조 속에서 생성된 감정의 흔적을 기록하고 있음을 포착한다.

손바느질과 패치워크로 이루어진 그의 작업은 소비의 짧은 시간성과 일회용 물질에 부여된 운명을 전복하는 수행적 제스처이다. 《소비 이후, 남겨진 것들이 묻다》는 이러한 실천이 단순한 재사용을 넘어, 촘촘히 짜여진 소비 시스템을 가시화하는 방식으로 작동함을 보여준다.

특히 감열지로 인쇄된 영수증은 시간이 흐르며 글씨가 흐릿해지고 결국 지워진다. 소비의 날짜와 금액, 장소라는 구체적 기록이 소멸한 자리에는, 작가가 조합한 형태와 패턴만이 오브제로 남는다. 이는 소비가 약속한 가치와 기억의 불안정성을 드러내는 동시에, 정보가 사라진 이후에도 물질은 여전히 질문으로 남는다는 역설을 제시한다.

일회용 테이프로 구성된 건축적 회화 작업 또한 ‘임시적’ 재료가 만들어내는 구조적 견고함을 통해, 내구성과 영속성으로 가치를 판단해온 관습적 기준에 균열을 낸다.

이 전시는 소비 이후 남겨진 것들이 단순한 폐기물이 아니라, 세계화된 소비 문화가 빚어낸 욕망과 감정, 역사와 정체성이 교차하는 지점임을 환기한다. 기록은 지워지고 정보는 사라지지만, 그 흔적들이 축적된 형상은 또 다른 질문의 장으로 남는다. 《소비 이후, 남겨진 것들이 묻다》 전시는 우리가 무엇을 쌓아가고, 무엇을 잃으며, 무엇을 잊고 있는지, 그리고 그러한 선택들 속에 어떤 사회적 의미가 스며 있는지를 우리에게 조용히 묻는다. 

큐레이터: 임미란

After Consumption, the Remnants Ask

Kim Dong-kyu’s work is composed of remnants generated through everyday acts of consumption and the accumulation of disposable materials. Based in Los Angeles and working as both a fashion designer and textile artist, he attends to how these objects—destined for immediate disposal—quietly record our paths of movement, traces of choice, formed tastes, and the emotions produced within structures of capitalist desire.

Constructed through hand stitching and patchwork, his practice functions as a performative gesture that overturns the short temporality of consumption and the prescribed fate of disposable matter. After Consumption, What Remains Asks reveals how this practice moves beyond reuse, operating instead as a means of making visible the densely woven systems of consumption.

Receipts printed on thermal paper, in particular, embody the work’s engagement with time and erasure. As the ink gradually fades and ultimately disappears, the concrete records of consumption—dates, prices, and locations—are lost. What remains are the forms and patterns assembled by the artist, existing solely as objects. This process exposes the instability of the value and memory promised by consumption, while proposing a paradox in which material persists as a site of inquiry even after information has vanished.

Architectural painting works composed of disposable tape further demonstrate how materials deemed “temporary” can generate unexpected structural solidity. Through these works, Kim challenges conventional value systems that privilege durability and material permanence.

This exhibition ultimately reframes what remains after consumption not as mere waste, but as a point where desires, emotions, histories, and identities produced by globalized consumer culture intersect. While records fade and information disappears, the accumulated forms endure as another field of questioning. After Consumption, What Remains Asks quietly invites us to consider what we accumulate, what we lose, what we forget, and what social meanings are embedded within those choices.

Curator: Miran Lim Lee

​김동규 Dong Kyu Kim

Dong Kyu Kim is a mixed-media artist and fashion designer whose works are constructed of paper receipts, tickets, and other materials collected over the past 14 years since relocating to the United States. All his materials are sewn together by hand. Kim’s work explores his relationship to the U.S., the concept of the American dream, and how individual lives are affected by transitions in global economic structures.

Kim has exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the U.S. He recently received a 2021 New Jersey Individual Artist Fellowship Award from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and his work has received awards from many institutions, including the Florida State University Museum of Arts, FL; Oklahoma State University, OK; Minot State University, ND; and many others. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Fashion Design. 

The Unanswered Question #2 (Detail), 2018, 52" x 63"x 2"

Paper receipts, tickets, thread, swiffer microfiber cloths, hand sewn

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