Congratulations to Art History PhD candidate Dasol Kim for being appointed the fall 2022 IFPDA curatorial fellowship at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston!
As the IFPDA curatorial fellow, Dasol will assist the Curator of Prints and Drawings with developing themes and researching modern and contemporary prints for upcoming installations in the museum’s Nancy and Rich Kinder Building. She will also help research prints for the American and European art galleries in the museum’s Audrey Jones Beck Building and contribute to the interpretive materials for these object-based installations. This opportunity is funded by the IFPDA Foundation.
Dasol Kim investigates in her doctoral dissertation, “Muslim, African, and Native American Bodies in Northern European Homes: Constructing the Foreign Other through the Use of Furnishings, 1500–1700,” the European production and reception of metalwork that depicts human figures with the reference to non-Christians or non-Europeans. She studies swords, candlesticks and lamps, tableware, statuettes, and bronze plaques that were made in German-speaking regions and Italy between 1500 and 1700. Her question is how such works reflected and contributed to the elites’ conception of the depicted groups by being seen, touched, and smelled at the courts and burgher houses.