Inspired by the tradition of Korean silk painting, Hun Kyu Kim crafts poignant allegorical pictures employing an almost limitless range of historical inquiry. Vast intricate narrative universes, laced with intense imagination, reflect upon a post-globalized world grappling with the effects of technological neoliberalism. Deep hierarchical structures, extreme belief systems and political polemics are displayed through detailed narratives often driven by a frenzy of anthropomorphic proxies. Time and space conflate, portraying an eternal state of emergency, where violent outbursts aren’t merely accidents but normative traits of social interaction. Commercial commodities and pop cultural tropes (from Pokémons, to selfies, to art) place the landscape in an ostensibly fantastical world grounded in the realities of the contemporary condition. Kim’s work functions as an anomaly of sorts, which is simultaneously illustrative but emblematic, detailed but diagnostic, cute but critical.