Too much and not enough

Against Vivaldi's Four Seasons and plans of the Venitian Lagoon, Too much and not enough (2019) offers an exploration of the conflict between the lack and excess of two essential elements of life: water and sun. Dressed as a futuristic explorer, armed with selfie sticks and other tripods, Mona – Western name chosen by the artist of Korean origin in reference to the protagonist of the movie Vagabond by Agnès Varda – roams a potentially fragile ecosystem, alternating between canals and worldliness.
Based on a series of tragicomic observations and a surge of superlatives, the artist builds a caustic symphony that alternates between three languages – Korean, English and French.

  • Mona Young-eun KIM
    Director
  • Mona Young-eun KIM
    Writer
  • Mona Young-eun KIM
    Producer
  • Mona Young-eun KIM
    Key Cast
    Bosin de l'eau
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Too much and not enough
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short, Virtual Reality, Other
  • Genres:
    sci-fi, drama, art, thriller, Tragicomedy, environmental, contemporary
  • Runtime:
    4 minutes 30 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    May 23, 2019
  • Production Budget:
    50 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Italy
  • Country of Filming:
    Italy
  • Language:
    English, French, Korean
  • Shooting Format:
    360 video
  • Aspect Ratio:
    2:1
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Exhibition Too much and not enough
    Luxembourg
    Luxembourg
    September 25, 2019
    Luxembourg premiere
  • Exhibition Grasping Water
    Venice
    Italy
    May 23, 2019
    World premier
Director Biography - Mona Young-eun KIM

Née en Corée du Sud, Mona Young-eun KIM, plasticienne, vit et travaille à Montpellier.

Elle cherche à réaliser des œuvres qui réveillent notre inconscient et qui nous font rêver. Sa pratique s’articule autour des thèmes du déplacement réel et imaginaire. Cette ambiguïté crée ainsi un espace poétique et humoristique qui laisse une certaine liberté d’interprétation et d’appropriation par le spectateur. Pour formuler ses propositions artistiques, elle choisit principalement les couleurs vives et les formes nettes, comme l’enseigne lumineuse qui est son outil d’art préféré.

Intéressée par les interventions artistiques dans l’espace public, Mona a remporté en 2017 le concours organisé par la SA3M (société d'aménagement du territoire) pour les Halles Laissac à Montpellier. Pour ce projet, elle a là aussi imaginé une œuvre colorée et lumineuse inspirée du melon, qui couvre le lanterneau et les vitrages de ce bâtiment.

Mona est diplômée de l’École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Montpellier et de l’Université de Dongguk à Séoul en philosophie et cinéma et audiovisuel.

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Director Statement

My work focuses on the understanding of visual signs and information as well as their possible evolution in the future. The signs that I put in place are not always visible. This ambiguity creates a poetic and humorous space that leaves a certain freedom of interpretation and appropriation by the spectator. I use language, but also ordinary objects or light as materials - post-its, artificial flowers and illuminated signs are just some of the media I have used.
Several of my works question the notion of inside / outside and use windows as a canvas and portal between these two states. The window can be seen as a symbol of boredom or mundanity and being dissatisfied with where you are physically and wanting to be elsewhere. This could also be boredom of misunderstanding or boredom with our existence. This tedium is the starting point of the work. I try to dissolve the boundary between real space and imaginary space. I seek to create works that wake us up and make us dream.