Chasing the Vanish

Standing at a moment in time that is breaking apart, artist Saha Kim captures things that fade away but never truly disappear.

The connection between us is like footprints left in the snow. A swirling blizzard covers these footprints, slowly erasing their traces, but creates a beautiful snowy landscape in its place.

As seconds and minutes pile up, the warmth that falls upon the world melts these beautiful things. Through photography, the artist 'freezes' the melting, vanishing sparkles once again.

The exhibition, ≪Chasing the Vanish: About the Vanishing Glaciers≫, is an imperfect preservation of time. The emotions given by fragments and remains are complex and subtle. Are they trying to disappear, or do they want to stay? Perhaps they are just slices of memory that suddenly appear but cannot be caught.

《About the Vanishing Glaciers》 is a project that records the beauty of shining glaciers and the things that are now disappearing. I believe photography is the best medium to prove that they truly existed.

During my three journeys, I walked on the glaciers, touched them, and went inside them. At those moments, the giant landscape felt like it would last forever. However, after coming back out, the scenes of collapsing ice, the loud crashing sounds, and the news of their rapid disappearance were so different from what I felt inside. I had to face the reality: while the beauty is clearly there, it is already shrinking and breaking down.

I capture the eternal beauty of these glaciers,

while at the same time, I witness them fading away.

I want to talk about the many parts of nature that are vanishing—things that exist on Earth but feel far from our daily lives, and things we take for granted just because they are distant.

I hope these images of beauty—which I want to keep and look at forever—will stay in your heart as a lasting light.