"The Mental Athlete" is Wednesday's new mental care project for everyone stuck at their home or office or home office. It is another series of
work that deals with mental health. In her past work, "aesthetic of being Disappeared.", a therapist appeared to help out, and this time,
a health trainer will help you get your mind healthier. "The Mental athlete" is based on a mixture of her personal experiences + other people’s experiences via an online survey.
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It illustrates the relationship between mental health and cleaning and how exercise boosts the brain and improves mental health. a clean home
and healthy body are the evidence of a state of mind.
are you tired? are you depressed? Do you stay home or work on a computer for a long day?
Get ready with Wednesday. Let's work out together.
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about the artist
Wednesday Kim is an interdisciplinary artist and a co-founder of De:Formal. She is from Seoul, South Korea and is currently based out
of California. Kim works with a mixture of analog and digital media including 3D animation, video, performance, installation, print, and sculpture with clusterfuck aesthetics. Her work is informed by personal experiences and human psychology; she derives imagery from nightmares, intrusive thoughts, and childhood trauma. Furthermore, she portrays the absurdity of information-saturated contemporary
life in a surrealist fashion through wordplay, Wikipedia, voyeurism, and witticism.
Recent exhibitions and screenings include: Mental; Science Gallery, Melbourne and Art Science Museum, Singapore; “The Digital Weird”; Arebyte Gallery, Oline, London, UK, Well Now WTF?, Silicon Valet, Online; Meme is my culture, Spazio Y, Rome (2020);
Transmediale Vorspiel, Berlin; FASTLINE, Hervisions for Art Night 2019, London; CHRYSANTHEMM, Underground Flower, Ho Chi Minh City; Project Marco Asylum, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea de Rome, Rome (2019); SUPERNOVA Digital Animation Festival, Denver (2018); 8th Cairo Video Festival, Medrar for Contemporary Art, Cairo; Lanzarote International Video Art, Cultura Lanzarote, Las Palmas.
Kim was shortlisted and received a residency prize for the Mother Art Prize 2018 by The Procreate Project and was awarded the
Audience Prize as part of the Parts & Labour animation programme as Derby QUAD in 2016.
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Website: www.wednesdaykim.xyz
IG: @wednesdaykimm
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about Pylon-Lab
PYLON is a hybrid of online archive and curatorial platform for digital, media and time-based art, showcasing experimental and interdisciplinary artworks as approaches of contemporary art in a digitizing time and society.
Website: https://pylon-hub.com/lab
IG: @pylon_hub_lab
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