“Node: One and its entirety” Poster ©Sungkok Art MuseumSungkok Art Museum presents Node: One and its entirety a solo exhibition by artist Haiyoung Suh, on view through June 18. The exhibition is part of the ‘Invitational Exhibition of Korean Mid-Career Artists’ program organized by Sungkok Art Museum, which looks back at the artist’s work over the past 20 years, from 2003 to this year.
Known as the ‘Brick Artist,’ Suh’s work always begins with a seek of space. In her first solo exhibition in 1996, she explored the body as a space that contains human existence through bones. Since 2000, her work has been driven by her ongoing interest in the space created by stacking bricks in a flat or three-dimensional space.
The exhibition is installed on all three floors of the museum and encompasses works in a variety of formats, including painting, sculpture, and installation. On the first floor the ‘Prolongement’ section includes the brass “Prolongement” work and four paintings from the 2003 series ‘Ubiquitous’.
On the second floor, ‘Tight Perimeters’ reflects the artist’s awareness of relationships and how the boundaries that separate two opposites, such as inside and outside, separation and union, are actually only a thin membrane. Finally, the third floor, ‘Prospective Compositions’, is organized around works that use the flexibility and scalability of the unit to experiment with the practical potential of artworks.
The term ‘node’ has many different meanings in different fields, such as a plant joint in botany, a reference point in music to organize a melody, a fundamental unit in computer science, and a device or data point in a large network. The artist interprets ‘node’ as a ‘point of eruption’ and hopes to explore the direction of her work after this exhibition.
