Amy Yeminne Kim
I am an artist working in photography and installation. I focus on post-colonial geopolitics through the lens of the oil extraction craze in West Texas. My work is informed by photo history and theory, the promises and failures of the photographic medium, and my shifting identities as a Korean and as an American. 2025 PH Museum Grant 3rd place. Author and artist of “Basin Recipe Cards,” Nourish and Resist, Yale Univ. Press. 2024.
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Basin Recipe Cards
The CaribBasin Recipe Cards bring together geographical regions, inquiry into the medium of photography, and a joy of cooking, all in a series of recipe cards. With these cards, I activate a space that finds Caribbean presence within the carbon bearing oil fields of the Permian Basin of Texas. The cards are designed as a boxed set of four-by-six-inch printed and archivable photographic cards.
This work incorporates geology, displacement, extraction, coloniality, and sometimes gastronomy. The cards adopt an archipelagic structure in that each single card works alone as an island, yet the series of cards resemble the more open geoform of an archipelago. As an island would become a signifier in an archipelago, a recipe card acts as a signifier within the card collection.
Can anyone cook anything from these “recipe” cards? Probably not. But one can make associations between the Caribbean and the Permian Basin of Texas, between food and industry, between production and consumption, and between past and present.