Meet the Artist
Enna
Kim
aka. fongkikid, Mixed Media, Speculative Fiction, Storytelling, Digital Projection, Animation, Textiles
“My thesis explores the intergenerational and cultural gap existent within immigrant parents and their children through textiles, projection mapping, speculative fiction and dance. With my mother’s sewing machine, I carefully fabricated a hanbok (한복) ,a Korean traditional costume, to represent the pieces of my constructed and hyphenated identity. I use this digital space to create a speculative narrative animation between me and my parents, participating in a reciprocal exchange that extends beyond language. As the animation is projected onto my garment, my body becomes an essential part of merging my digital and physical identities, piercing through and with time and space.”
Enna Kim [fongkikid] is an interdisciplinary artist based in Toronto, Canada. She explores the dimensions between her hyphenated Korean-Canadian identity through animation, projection mapping and large-scale murals. Inspired by Korean motifs, colours and landscapes, she shares personal stories of her immigrant family as a form of experimental storytelling.Enna has exhibited work in InterAccess Gallery, Xpace Cultural Centre and events such as BIG on Bloor Festival, BigArtTO and Burning Man. She is a recent OCAD University graduate from the Digital Futures program, and the Glasgow School of Art (GSA) in Scotland and is currently pursuing her master’s degree at York University.
York University
Communication and Culture
Major In progress
The Glasgow School of Art (GSA)
Communication Design-Illustration (Honours)
Minor Completed, 2020
3D Modeling & Animation Projection Mapping Large-scale Murals Illustration Textiles-Hand-dying, Shibori