Gathering is pleased to participate in MiArt with a solo booth of recent sculpture by Soojin Kang. The booth features seven of Kang’s sculptures, ranging from wall hangings made from raw silk and cotton to more architectural works made from plaster, metal and hemp.
In this new body of work, clusters of fibre erupt from slabs of moulded concrete or appear to proliferate within the fabric of the blocks like tree burls or keloid tissue. Kang has remarked upon her interest in ‘the parts of the body that we can’t see,’ as well as the new shapes and textures that proliferate on the inner and outer surfaces of bodies as a result of injury or sickness. As vascular twists of fibre emerge from their concrete encasements, Kang’s sculptures evoke the formation of unruly cells. In doing so, the artist visualises the strange beauty of these bodily processes whilst preserving their secrecy and strangeness.
Delicate fabric and woven materials are entrapped inside or protrude from plaster, while the wall hangings experiment with the evocative power of fibres. The works presented at MiArt see the organic re-contextualised by their encasement in architectonic structures and place vitality and degeneration in delicate tension.
Photography by Nicola Morittu and Markus Schroder
