Suki Seokyeong Kang employs diverse media as an expansion of painting methodology according to her current approaches rooted in traditional Korean music notation. This notation system, known as Jeongganbo, provides a palette for visual explorations of materiality, narrative and temporal movement through space allowing her to react and employ sculpture, painting, video, textile, and performance.
The booth at Art Basel Statements will consist of both new and ongoing series of work formed from everyday objects re-contextualised and re-purposed into expandable and balanced structures and forms. The result of these concurrently restrictive and impromptu gestures is a space of various contexts and conditions that each individual member faces in society. Through her practice, the artist seeks a means of coexistence among different individuals founded upon the acknowledgement of the various conflicts in the surrounding environment. The artist will create a holistic environment utilising various mediums to create a state of equilibrium and harmony that mediate the recurring incongruity of our history and world today.
Suki Seokyeong Kang (b. 1977, Seoul; lives and works in Seoul) studied Oriental Painting at Ewha Womans University and received her MFA in Painting from the Royal College of Art London. Recent exhibitions include; Black Mat Oriole, ICA Philadelphia (2018); The Conscientious Objector, Public Fiction at the MAK Center; Beautiful World, Where Are You?, Liverpool Biennial (2018); Soon Enough: Art in Action, Tensta Konsthall (2018); Imagined Borders, Gwangju Biennale (2018); The Eighth Climate, Gwangju Biennale (2016); As the Moon Waxes and Wanes, MMCA, Gwacheon (2016); Foot and Moon, Audio Visual Pavilion, Seoul (2015).