STILL, SHE CARRIES
solo show with KIM SOO YOUNG
March 2nd – May 9th 2026
ONLINE VIEWING with ARTNET, ARTSY & KUNSTMATRIX
Worldwide
curated by Bruno Massa
galerie bruno massa is pleased to introduce to international audience for its first time a solo show by Kim Soo Young with dozen of artworks from March 2nd to May 9th 2026.
There is a woman walking through the streets of West Africa. On her head, a tray of dried fish. In one hand, water. On her back, a sleeping child. Beside her, another child keeping pace with her stride. She does not slow down. She does not ask to be seen. And yet — she is the most complete image of a Queen Kim Soo young has ever witnessed. Still, She Carries is an exhibition rooted in that single, unrepeatable moment. A moment where physical endurance and invisible grace collapsed into one body, one movement, one truth: that the greatest authority is not seized — it is sustained. These paintings do not romanticise strength. They sit with it honestly — and with everything that shadows it. A marriage. A divorce. The particular silence of a body that will not bear children. The absence that reshapes what it means to be a woman, to desire motherhood, to carry its ghost long after the possibility has passed.
The Queen in Kim Soo Young's work is never an abstraction. She is made of fish dried under African sun, of arms extended toward children who exist and children who do not, of a dignity so continuous it becomes invisible to those around her. She carries what is given and what is taken. She carries what was hoped for and what was lost. She carries cultures — African, European, Korean — layered beneath her skin like sediment.
Still — she stands. Still — she moves. Still — she carries.
In this immersive online 3D exhibition, the viewer enters a space where painting becomes presence. Where the Queen is not placed on a pedestal, but encountered — at eye level, in motion, in full.
Because she was never above us. She was always among us.
Kim Soo Young is a Korean-born artist whose practice has been shaped by over two decades of immersion in French artistic traditions. Moving fluidly between fine art and fashion, she has developed a visual language that defies easy categorization — rooted equally in personal memory and cross-cultural experience. Her work draws from travels across West Africa, life in Europe, and the cultural heritage of Korea, weaving these influences into large-scale figurative paintings executed in mixed media on hanji, Korean traditional paper. At the center of her practice stands the figure of the Queen — not as symbol of power, but as embodiment of endurance, femininity, and the silent authority of those who carry the weight of the world.
김수영은 한국 출신 작가로, 20년 이상 프랑스 예술 전통에 깊이 몸담으며 자신만의 독창적인 예술 세계를 구축해왔다. 순수미술과 패션을 자유롭게 넘나들며, 개인적 기억과 다문화적 경험에 뿌리를 둔 독특한 시각 언어를 발전시켜왔다. 서아프리카 여행, 유럽에서의 삶, 그리고 한국의 문화적 유산이 한데 어우러져, 한지(韓紙) 위에 혼합 매체로 구현된 대형 구상 회화로 탄생한다. 그녀의 작업 중심에는 '여왕'의 형상이 있다 — 권력의 상징이 아닌, 세상의 무게를 짊어진 이들의 인내와 여성성, 그리고 조용한 권위의 구현으로서.
Kim Soo Young
Queen 26-3
2026
Mixed media on Hanji Korean traditional paper
177 x 114 x 0,1 cm - 69,6 x 44,8 x 0,04 in
Kim Soo Young
Queen 26-5
2026
Mixed media on Hanji Korean traditional paper
177 x 114 x 0,1 cm - 69,6 x 44,8 x 0,04 in
