1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Price: 50,000 won / Dimension: 255x325mm / Pages: 100 / Full-color / Edition 500 only / Published by IANNBOOKS / November, 2010 ...The Dinner (2005) depicts a meal at which men in suits are served by — and in some instances symbolically consume — attractive, nearly nude young women. We, the viewers, are out in the cold like the three passersby wearing winter coats; forced to peer voyeuristically through a segmented glass wall, we witness but remain emotionally detached from interior scenes that include remarkably calm, stylized instances of mayhem and bondage. It is all a bit like watching fictive sex and violence on TV. The Auction (2006) presents a naked woman on a pedestal, partially surrounded on the rising wings of a double staircase by ranks of dark-suited potential buyers, all male. One cannot help but feel that Kim’s earlier unease with women’s role as the object of a relentless masculine gaze (the visual correlative of masculine desire) has here become outright protest against commodification — of the flesh, of youth and beauty, perhaps of art itself.... - Richard Vine from Talking Pictures an Interview with In Sook Kim                 Copyright 2007 FOIL CO., Ltd. And IANNBOOKS. All Rights Reserved.