LIQUID FANTASY picks up on the zeitgeist of a world in which physical and virtual reality are increasingly merging.
Based on their works on canvas, Eunjeong Kim and Carolin Israel shift and relocate the viewer's perception. Questioning the centre and periphery of painting, the two artists playfully approach these opposing poles until outside appears as inside, liquid as solid. Israel and Kim extend their formal language beyond the canvas into real and virtual space. They break open the pictorial space, stretching out their fingers towards our sensory perceptions. As if we were inside Israel's paintings, we can walk around their sculptural fragments and, in Kim's case, actually immerse ourselves visually and aurally in her works with the help of technological sensory expansion. Kim and Israel provoke reflections on the boundaries of art. Their works are neither purely sculptural nor purely painterly, but provoke a dialogue that challenges the usual categories of art. Their works transcend the boundaries of physical space and combine painting, sculpture and digital media to create an exciting dialogue.
