KIM Kidows

Profile

Born in 1992. A South Korean hybrid performing artist based in Paris. Graduated from CNDC Angers in contemporary dance and completed the Master Exerce program at ICI– CCN Montpellier 2020 under the direction of Christian Rizzo.
Their work forms an intimate cosmogony entitled Dictionary of Fantastical Creatures and includes ephemeral video performances entitled We love manga inspired by their fascination with manga.

Recent Activities:
2026 “High gear,” Zodiak, Side Step Festival, Helsinki
2025 “High gear,” Xing x Gallery P420, Bologna
2025 “High gear,” Actoral x BNM, Marseille
2025 “High gear,” Festival Les Inaccoutumés / La Ménagerie de verre, Paris
2025 “Funkenstein,” LaM x Laac contemporary art institutions, Dunkirk

About works

Kim's work is shaped by “Monstarchaeology,” a method of excavating an ambiguous organic form situated between figuration and abstraction, emerging from collective memories, intimate experiences, and gendered, social, and political histories.
Through this approach, they investigate forms of monstrosity that appear through the distortion of human corporeality, vocality, and everyday objects. By unsettling normative structures embedded within the collective unconscious, their performative practice seeks to reveal latent forms of strangeness concealed within the ordinary.
They approach the relationship between different mediums inside of performance structure, as a reflection of social structures and their systems of hierarchy.
By examining their layers, tensions, and reciprocal influences, they explore how materials can escape fixed classifications and produce unstable configurations. Rather than treating each medium as a stable discipline, they allow them to contaminate, absorb, and transform one another, producing ever-changing constellations.