Kim Soo Young is a Korean-born artist whose practice has been shaped by over two decades of immersion in French artistic traditions. Moving fluidly between fine art and fashion, she has developed a visual language that defies easy categorization — rooted equally in personal memory and cross-cultural experience. Her work draws from travels across West Africa, life in Europe, and the cultural heritage of Korea, weaving these influences into large-scale figurative paintings executed in mixed media on hanji, Korean traditional paper. At the center of her practice stands the figure of the Queen — not as symbol of power, but as embodiment of endurance, femininity, and the silent authority of those who carry the weight of the world.