B. Y. Kim is a lens-based artist with a strong background in research. Using self-portraiture as a form of storytelling, Kim grapples with her ancestral past. She engages with various open-source materials from online images, library archives, and family albums. Sourced images are derived from film negatives, used for digital projection, and serve as film transparencies in the darkroom. Kim layers, blends, and weaves together images that address her history, culture, and the role of Korean women across historical and geographical boundaries. She invites the viewer to look at the unseen, collapsing different spaces, periods, and memories into a single moment.