South Korean artist Suki Seokyeong Kang is presenting fourteen paintings, sculptures, and a video work for her debut exhibition in Hong Kong.“Foot and Moon,” running at Pearl Lam Galleries through May 27, explores the connections between music and interpersonal relationships. In creating these works, Kang was inspired by manuscripts featuring “jeongganbo,” a 15th century Korean system of musical notation that used a grid. Asked about her use of these documents, she stated, “I am informed by the wisdom of ancient texts, which exist in futility and reverberate aimlessly in an age that favors the new...It may be a way for me to come to terms with these conditions that have repeated themselves throughout the course of history.“ For Kang these grids of individual beats represented the coming together of people or of moments of a person’s life, insignificant on their own but making polyphonic music when brought together. With this in mind, Kang’s stacked sculptures resemble musical chords, with found objects of different colors, configurations, and materials piled up to create new works like “Round Cliff #02,” 2011-16. This is also mirrored in her paintings, where meaning is made by the relationship between the many layers of paint.Making the link between the work, music, and interactions between people even more explicit, Kang’s film “Black Under Colored Moon,” 2015, showing on the first floor of the exhibition, sees two people interacting with these sculptures in a choreographed sequence, assembling and disassembling them in dance-like movements in silence that for the artist represent social encounters. As the artist herself puts it in a press release, “I am interested in the mediations and encounters that occur from the incongruous conditions that recur throughout history.”“Suki Seokyeong Kang: Foot and Moon” runs through May 27 at Pearl Lam Galleries, Hong Kong
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