Rev to Memory: Fair Lady Z is a photobook that observes the flow of time and landscape moving between the inside and outside of a car, between roads and homes, and between cities and fishing villages, through a “red car” that accompanied the journeys of an individual and a family.

Through the term "Rev", which refers to the revolutions of a car engine, the artist uses the accumulated time embedded in the vehicle as a medium—starting the engine and looking outward to observe the changing surroundings of the artist and their family.

This photo-essay brings together four bodies of work by Kim Seeyoul into a single narrative. It is the result of a publication support program awarded to the final selected artist of A VIEW, an emerging artist portfolio review program.

Although I was born and raised in Seoul, my family moved to a small fishing village in Seocheon, Chung cheongnam-do, after my father’s business fell into difficulty. With no family ties or connections to the unfamiliar seaside town, we had to rebuild our livelihood from scratch. One day, my father unexpectedly acquired a large fishing boat. He named it Camellia, after the village where camellia flowers bloom in abundance, and our family thus became a “returning fisher family,” placing the sea at the center of our lives.
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In a later year, as I was settling back into life in Seoul, I lost my grandmother and grandfather in succession. After the funeral, I stayed alone in their house beneath Dobongsan Mountain. The space felt like a quiet museum where traces of two generations coexisted. Objects left throughout the house seemed to speak to me, and as I followed the absences left behind by those who were gone, I realized that my own remaining time was also beginning to waver.

Kim See Youl received an MFA in Photography Design from the Graduate School of Industrial Arts at Hongik University. Beginning from personal experience, the artist records fragmentary events drawn from everyday life and captures, through photography, the density of time and sensory perception that flow at the intersection of place and memory. Representative works include 《Naebu Expressway》, 《A Flower is not a Flower》, and 《Fishing Village Family》, which observe the relationships among elements that constitute space through a multilayered perspective.