The artist book Air Conditioned Hours features photographs capturing Ju Young Kims perspective as a transcontinental traveler, accompanied by short stories created in collaboration with Guilherme Vilhena Martins, based on diary entries, thoughts, conversations, and travel observations. The publication was co-conceptualized and designed by Maximilian Schachtner and published by Edition Taube. Inspired by airplane meals, a limited special edition of 50 copies is also presented, packaged in an aluminum tray with a foldable metal spoon, reminiscent of a lunchbox. Themes such as temporality and transience are explored, with the spoon-inspired design, engraved with Art Nouveau motifs, reflecting tensions between ephemerality, permanence, movement, grounding, and the compactness of travel.
Ju Young Kim studierte Bildhauerei in der Klasse von Prof. Olaf Nicolai. 2024 wurde sie zum Diplom mit der Debütantinnenförderung (m/w/d) ausgezeichnet.