Talk & Lecture
Monday Salon
3pm, 20 April 2026
Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Monday Salon is a programme that has been running at the Total Museum of Contemporary Art for over a decade. On 20 April, it will host an artist talk by JeeMin Kim. Since 2021, Kim has been developing the Prototype Temple series, an ongoing journey that seeks to address the question: “Why do we feel a melancholic nostalgia for past civilisations we have never experienced?”
Drawing on the language of stage production, her practice transforms specific sites into immersive environments through painting, kinetic elements, sound, and performance. Prototype Temple is generated in the form of exhibitions, each accompanied by a changing subtitle, constructing and concluding a distinct scenario as if a performance were beginning and ending. Through an imaginative reconstruction of lost civilisations and the voices of those who have passed, her work raises questions about the fictitious nostalgia shaped by Western archaeology and colonial modes of looking.