Portrait, 2024
Medium: Offset print
Dimension: 230x300mm, 376p
Edition: 500
Collaborator: Hwawon, Mediabus, propaganda (publisher), Emily Smith (image collecting), Emily King (text), Miji Lee (editor, translator), Donghyeok Shin (design), Intime (printing, binding), unrealstudio (documentation photo), Idea Books (distribution)
An extension of the ongoing SET project, this ambitious publication, Portrait, proposes an accommodating container—one capable of holding matters of accumulation, testing out new methods of making, revealing past processes, and introducing serendipity and co-authorship into the evolving narrative that is
Na Kim’s practice.
The publication follows a familiar trajectory in the footsteps of SET’s logic, mapping real-world scale and perspective onto the printed page. There are more than three hundred printed pages—‘blank slates,’ inviting canvases—for an experimental dialogue between archival elements, the present moment, and unknown outcomes.