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ICE AGE: Objects that Remember Warmth
Lia Jiyun Kim · United States of America
Conceptual & Fine Art
ICE AGE: Objects that Remember Warmth captures fragments of human life frozen in time: a flower, a suitcase, a chair, a television, a fish, all suspended between stillness and memory. Through surreal compositions and a restrained palette of icy blues and muted warmth, the series explores the paradox of preservation and loss — how traces of emotion remain even after life has stopped moving. Among these objects, the red armchair and glowing lamp serve as quiet witnesses of human presence. They suggest warmth, rest, and memory, now displaced into a landscape of silence. Their soft light becomes a metaphor for emotional endurance, the last trace of life that refuses to fade. Each frozen surface reflects not only physical coldness but also the persistence of feeling, suggesting that warmth can endure even within silence and ice. The work reimagines nostalgia as a frozen state of being, where memory does not fade but crystallizes.
