A perceptual image in which portrait, sound, and historical memory converge into a single textural surface.
Kim Min-gi 1971 (2025) reconstructs the cultural and auditory moment of Kim Min-gi's debut — released when he was twenty, his only full-length record, and a singular work in Korean modern history and popular culture.
The image integrates portrait, the soundscape of Morning Dew, and historical reference into one visual structure. From a distance, the face of the young Kim Min-gi becomes recognizable; at closer range, it dissolves into a texture constructed from the soundscape of Morning Dew.
Rather than reproducing the original 1971 album image, the work reactivates it from the perspective of 2025. The coarse, previously non-signifying noise of the original is transformed into meaningful texture — a resonance of memory, where past imagery and present perception meet within a single perceptual field.
Kim Min-gi 1971 forms part of SHINHO's ongoing investigation into how memory becomes perceptually recognizable when image dissolves into texture.
