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Jisun Kim — Art as Legal Shoplifting
Understanding herself as an activist to the same extent as being an artist, Jisun Kim raises tricky questions by bringing huge topics down to very tangible and understandable projects. For ‘Well-Stealing’ — one of her recent projects — Kim places her own works of art in shops and stores among common products. So Jisun Kim’s art can be ‘legally stolen’ by shoppers who dare to take it. The project playfully interrogates the boundaries between commodity and artwork, ownership and access, consumption and cultural participation — turning the commercial space into a site of gentle subversion.