Harper’s is pleased to announce Castaway, New York-based artist Ho Jae Kim’s third solo exhibition with the gallery.  Across his rigorous practice, painter Ho Jae Kim examines questions of liminality: the artist renders scenes of existential transition and disorientation, transcribing the wayward architectures of purgatory and other entrapped states. In Castaway, Kim continues to investigate the aesthetics and affects that color this psychic in between. He considers the film Cast Away (2000) as a cultural reference from which to address such interior reckoning. In the blockbuster film, Tom Hanks plays a man deserted on an island; with few tools and resources, he must learn how to endure the trauma of solitude. He personifies a volleyball to cope with his loneliness, naming it Wilson. As Kim…