Sookyung Kim aims to explore the “boundaries” between material forms, 3D, and media experiments. Through abstract expressions of fairy tales and the absence of fixed structures, she looks for a sensory experience that evokes a childlike spirit while illuminating the darker aspects of reality. Just as social norms are formed and oppressed through the body, she layers and overlaps images to transcend these fixed representations, deconstructing existing notions and revealing another side of society. The cyber spaces she creates align with Eastern philosophical concepts of inner exploration and self-transcendence, representing a utopian-dystopian world where technology and art intersect. These digital environments symbolize human escapism and the drive to break free from reality, while also exposing established hierarchies and power structures in new ways. The cyber realm transcends physical limitations, offering viewers new modes of interdependence by connecting with non-human forms.

In her practice, Wies investigates the materialisation of memory, focusing on the paradoxical preservation of ephemeral traces. With a sensitivity to site and process, her pulp casts of architectural surfaces—inverted and displaced—reconstruct a fragmented presence in absentia by recording a history of space, like pseudo-palimpsests. These works, resisting fixity, are susceptible to the same inevitable processes of decay that transform buildings into ruins over time.

Ultimately, her artistic practice engages a complex interplay between permanence and impermanence, solidity and fragility, and absence and presence. This emphasis on the temporal complexities of materials in flux starts to question the stability of foundations, and by extension the purported permanence of the institutions which rely on them.