5 June - 21 June 2026 / Sooun Kim / Quiet Folds Dispersing You
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Quiet Folds Dispersing You is a film installation that unfolds from the mind of the artist, Sooun Kim, examining the unsettled sense of self and disconnection from place brought about by the artist’s experience of migrating to Glasgow. This state of psychological daze, of being simultaneously trapped and disconnected, is loosely associated with the story of Korean independence activist Yi Jun, who died alone under mysterious circumstances in a hotel room in The Hague in 1907.
Using temperature as a mode, the film posits the idea of limbo as a unifying location and state of being, one which all can access but few can leave. Rather than proposing return or aspirations of recovery, the film explores the persistence of inertia and its effects on our understanding of ourselves and our surroundings.
The exhibition is in a former home, 44 Carlton Place emphasising a feeling of domesticity and softness. Kim’s film is grounded by a comfort blanket falling freely onto the carpeted floor. The space itself is currently mid-renovation, between its past as a townhouse, and its future as an art gallery. This transitional period allows the viewer to contemplate a "place of becoming," suspended between history and possibility.
Patricia Fleming Gallery occupies two gallery spaces in the Laurieston area, the historic former Sheriff Court, now Oxford House at 4 Oxford Lane and 44 Carlton Place. Both are open during festival hours.
Sooun Kim (b.1989 South Korea) lives and works in Glasgow. He studied at Chung-AngCH Seoul, South Korea and Glasgow School of Art, graduating with an MFA in 2020.
Kim works across painting, video, sound, and installation. Embracing a process of abstraction shaped by mediated perception, his artwork appears as shifting terrains; hybrid surfaces where his lived experience of diasporic migration drifts in and out of proximity. Refusing romantic notions of cultural fusion, Kim’s work foregrounds how identities and images fragment and reconfigure under postcolonial and technological conditions, accentuating the psychological distance between simulation and human embodiment.
Solo exhibitions: Glasgow International (Upcoming); NADA, New York (2025), Bank Commissions, Outer Spaces, Glasgow, UK (2025); Echoes, Patricia Fleming Gallery, Glasgow, UK (2024); Ramifying Frost, Goethe-Institut, Glasgow, UK (2023). Two-person and group exhibitions include: 198th RSA Annual Exhibition, The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, UK (2024); Begin Again, the Korean Embassy Cultural Centre in London, and Berlin, UK and Germany (2022); Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin 2022, Berlin, Germany (2022); NOWNESS Experiments: Yellow Fever, NOWNESS ASIA, Hong Kong (2022); Art Lovers Movie Club: Born Beneath, ArtReview (2022); The Auto-Buzz of Hybrid Kim and Rabbit, Intermedia Gallery of Centre for Contemporary Art, CCA, Glasgow, UK (2021); CIRCA Class of 2020, Piccadilly Lights in Piccadilly Circus, London, UK (2020); Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York, UK (2020)
Exhibition is free and open to the public 5 June -21 June 2026
PV: 4 June 4-6pm
Gallery opening times throughout the festival
Fri 05 Jun – Sun 07 Jun (10am – 5pm)
Mon 08 Jun – Sat 13 Jun (12pm – 5pm)
Sun 14 Jun – Tue 16 Jun, closed
Wed 17 Jun – Sun 21 Jun (12pm – 5pm)
or by appointment
Access: The gallery threshold has four steps. We regret that there are no temporary ramps at the venue at this point.
Directions: Patricia Fleming Gallery, 44 Carlton Place, Glasgow, G5 9TW (Central Station 11 minutes walk, Bridge St and St Enoch Subway 7 minutes walk).
For further info and all media requests, please contact: gallery@patricia-fleming.com