CICA museum M Gallery
April 24 – 28, 2024
2024. 04. 24 – 28
What Good is Fruit that is not Sweet?
“What Good is Fruit that is not Sweet?” is a photography project documenting the life of my mother as she ages and confronts changes in her health and mobility. It explores our relationship as parent and child and how roles shift as time persists. These circumstances also pose the questions of whether we can quantify or qualify how good a person is at fulfilling a societal role and whether the romanticization of the “American Dream” can influence those parameters.
These images aim to celebrate daily life with an emphasis on my interpretation of events and with less rigidity around how the events unfolded. This body of work utilizes the indexical nature of photographs to world-build, create and preserve a past that is nostalgic and reminiscent, regardless of whether it is factual.
Young Kim was born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska where he currently resides. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Public Communications from the University of Alaska Anchorage and has recently earned a Master of Fine Arts in Photography from the Hartford Art School at the University of Hartford. He is also currently co-owner and operator of the community gallery and photography studio, Akela Space.