｢Tin Function｣ at Bio Gallery, Seoul until Oct 3rd, 2026
VIRREINA Residency in Bogotá, Colombia until Oct 1st, 2026
N/A, Seoul
YELIM KI collects discarded appliances and repurposes them into sculptural assemblages.
Beyond their formal transformation, she programmes lighting or vibration patterns that respond to the sonic environment.
To her, physical debris is both a by-product of consumer society and a medium for the construction of technical instruments.
310x210x600, styrofoam, car headlights, cooling fan, insulated box.
1800x135x75, 1880x540x75, roller conveyor part, decals, bike handle, door hinge, leather strap, PLA, metal screws, aluminum profile.
Moving head stage light projecting a virtual phone number forwarding to a sound poem. DMX controller, custom gobo.
Kora, 2026, Installation View at 50L, Amsterdam.
900x600x1250, Dimmable LED programmed to react to the waveform of a sound file. Kitchen Hood, slide projector carousel, speaker cone, metal.
900x600x1250, Dimmable LED programmed to react to the waveform of a sound file. Kitchen Hood, slide projector carousel, speaker cone, metal.
Kora, 2024, Installation view of Group Show <Colorless green ideas sleep furiously> at Paradise, Den Haag.
750x700x500, Kitchen Hood, LED, Metal, Plastic Window Frame, Transducer vibrating every hour.
750x700x500, Kitchen Hood, LED, Metal, Plastic Window Frame, Transducer vibrating every hour.
WATCH: SOLAR STORMS STRIKE THE PENINSULA ALONG ITS DARKENED URBAN SPRAWL AS NIGHTFALL LOOMS, 2025, Installation view, at Systema, Marseille.
Dimmable LED reactive to LFO (low-frequency oscillator) Waveforms, Hygrometer, CD, Metal Grids, Acrylic, 295x210x90*4
Corner Suite, 2025, Installation view, at Systema, Marseille.
Metal, Reflective Tiles, Wire Mesh, LED, 280x160x200 *2
Metal, Reflective Tiles, Wire Mesh, LED, 280x160x200 *2
Untitled, 2025, Custom-made light set for the music concert Love Spirals Horror at Arcade Seoul. Dimmable LED reactive to live sound input(singer's voice), mountable to a C-stand: prism sheet, metal, LED, Lexan, thermoplastic, Arduino,
135x370x115, 333x255x108
135x370x115, 333x255x108
Alev, 2024, Installation view of Group Show <On all eights> at Paradise, Den Haag.
Dimmable LED reactive to environmental noise. Sound sensor, acrylic tube, glass fiber reel, thermoplastic(vacuum forming technique), Arduino, 1300x200x200
Dimmable LED reactive to environmental noise. Sound sensor, acrylic tube, glass fiber reel, thermoplastic(vacuum forming technique), Arduino, 1300x200x200
May, 2024, Installation view of Group Show <On all eights> at Paradise, Den Haag.
Dimmable LED reactive to environmental noise. Sound sensor, garden light, thermoplastic(vacuum forming technique), Arduino, 380x220x180
Untitled, 2022, Installation View at Collision's Craft, Baltimore. Printed Vinyl Sheets in a playground. Size Variable.
Kora, 2024, Installation view of Group Show <Colorless green ideas sleep furiously> at Paradise, Den Haag.
Toilet Tissue Dispenser, Transducer vibrating every hour, LED lamp, Gold Leaf. 250x200x650
Toilet Tissue Dispenser, Transducer vibrating every hour, LED lamp, Gold Leaf. 250x200x650
Her practice extends to filmmaking, exploring the temporal threshold at which something is deemed "valid" and how its withdrawn function can be reclaimed.
With the theme of technological obsolescence and the paradox of permanence, she investigates how digital memory deteriorates while physical waste accumulates eternally.
Ki’s first short film as co-director, Wunderkammer 10.0 (2021), received the Special Jury Prize at Jeonju International Film Festival (2022).
Her work has been presented internationally at MMCA Seoul, e-flux Film & Video Festival, Instrument Inventors Initiative (iii), Kurzfilmfestival Köln (KFFK), EXiS (Seoul Experimental Film and Video Festival), Asia Culture Center (ACC) Cinematheque, and more.
With the theme of technological obsolescence and the paradox of permanence, she investigates how digital memory deteriorates while physical waste accumulates eternally.
Ki’s first short film as co-director, Wunderkammer 10.0 (2021), received the Special Jury Prize at Jeonju International Film Festival (2022).
Her work has been presented internationally at MMCA Seoul, e-flux Film & Video Festival, Instrument Inventors Initiative (iii), Kurzfilmfestival Köln (KFFK), EXiS (Seoul Experimental Film and Video Festival), Asia Culture Center (ACC) Cinematheque, and more.
SELECTION OF FILMS & COLLECTIVE PROJECTS
Heaven Machine
2026
Full documentation and info
Combining a visual novel with 3D animation and 90s point-and-click gameplay, the film captures the feeling of control and the illusion of it within domestic networks and communication technology. The narrative is based on the pseudoscientific theory that a particular vibrating frequency can stimulate the human eyeball, causing hallucinations.
Princess
2024
Full documentation and info
In a world where everyone lives forever, Xana struggles to recall his memories. An old tape machine becomes both an investigative tool and an obsolete artifact, capturing his collapsing sense of self.
Gnome
2023
99betaHUD (Jihyoung Han, Yelim Ki)
Full documentation and info
Gnome is an audio-visual poem that quotes the words of an extinct Earth Spirit to tell the story of an alternative life in an off-grid community.
Wunderkammer10.0
2021
Co-Directed by
Inwoo Jung, Soyun Park, Yelim Ki
Full documentation and info
In a virtual city of the future, the operating system Wunderkammer is created to provide a more stable and faster autonomous driving service. It crawls map data and learns by itself. Soon, it faces the limitations of data accessibility within a specific timeline; it starts digging online and finds a long-expired travel blog.
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~ more ~
The Cell(2025)
TACTICS (2023)
Fountantine (2022)
Vent (2021)
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