Cindy Ji Hye Kim’s “Animal Triste”

François Ghebaly is proud to present Animal Triste, Cindy Ji Hye Kim’s third exhibition at the gallery. In the centuries before the widespread adoption of the Gregorian calendar, agrarian societies in Western Europe represented time as infused with the cycles of nature. Not unlike the modern Farmer’s Almanac or other global calendars based on solar and lunar movements, medieval farming calendars correlated times of the year with the sequence of labors necessary to raise and maintain crops and livestock. The calendars also served an invaluable psychosocial function, offering instruction for the timing of courtship, child-rearing, and other practices, and, in effect, creating a steadfast tie between the social order and the natural world.