I started from a simple observation: people were photographing their food more carefully than they were eating it.

Heejung Kim is a South Korean artist who spent decades in the dining industry before she began to see it clearly—what people hunger for, increasingly, is not food but its image. The meal ends; the photograph circulates. Desire detaches from the body and enters a loop.

Kim collects dessert imagery from Instagram and dismantles it. The fragments are literal: digital particles, stripped of context. What she reassembles was never meant to look like anything— gathered fragments become crashing waves, powdered sugar a mountain ridge at dusk.

Having lived in a world where sound comes and goes, she knows how images can overwhelm while leaving nothing behind. She works in that gap.

In Unmaking the Sweetness, the artificial does not disappear into the natural. The two remain distinct—something that doesn't resolve, but holds.