CICA Museum, 3-A Gallery
July 31 – August 4, 2024
2024.07.31 – 08.04
Running After Money – RAM
“Running After Money” (RAM), a solo exhibition by artist Keight at the CICA Museum in Gimpo, Korea, examines the intricate relationship between individuals and money, exploring how the relentless pursuit of wealth impacts our behaviors and values.
Through vector illustrations, photography, screen printing, and ink drawings, Keight employs universal key symbols to depict this dynamic: the perpetually running worker, the supermarket cart symbolizing compulsive consumption, the dollar as a global economic power, American cultural influence pictograms, headless figures representing consumer society archetypes, the packet of chips symbolizing instant gratification, and the 404 error denoting the dead ends and frustrations of this pursuit.
The acronym RAM references computer memory, serving as a metaphor for how the overload of our material quest can slow down and complicate our lives. This exhibition invites each of us to reflect on our own relationship with money and the often invisible costs of this relentless chase.
Karim Bassegoda, known as Keight, was born in 1988 in Lausanne. He lives and works in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland. In 2012, he was selected to exhibit at the Biennale of Graphic Arts in Szeklerland, Romania. Following this, he participated in an artist residency project (Hors-Piste) in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, which was later exhibited in Paris, Brussels, Milan, and Lausanne. He has been a finalist and exhibitor in various national competitions and galleries, such as the Prisma Art Prize in Rome, Creative Competition and Visual Art Open in London, Artistik Rezo in Paris, CICA Museum in Gimpo-Si (Seoul), ArtNow Projects in Geneva, and Le Manoir in Martigny. He is the winner of the 2024 Alfred Latour Prize.
