“Suki Seokyeong Kang: Willow Drum Oriole.” Suki Seokyeong Kang: Willow Drum Oriole, Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea (2024)

Christine Y. Kim contributed the text “Suki Seokyeong Kang: Willow Drum Oriole” to Suki Seokyeong Kang: Willow Drum Oriole, an exhibition catalogue edited by June Young Kwak and Harry Choi, published for the exhibition at Leeum Museum of Art.

Suki Seokyeong Kang's practice traversed painting, sculpture, installation, as well as video and performance, to explore the interplay between the individual and the collective. By developing an artistic vocabulary that drew from the rich heritage of Korean painting, poetry, and dance, Kang's oeuvre examined the durability of traditions and expanded their significance to contemporary art. The catalogue, accompanying her solo exhibition Willow Drum Oriole at Leeum Museum of Art, proposed to read Kang's practice through a range of varying discourses, such as the status of traditional Korean painting in contemporary art, feminism, and the narratives of the Western avant-garde. Taking the artist's foundational painting practice as a point of departure, the catalogue featured a new body of work and charted the development of Kang's artistic language.

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“Suki Seokyeong Kang: Willow Drum Oriole.” Suki Seokyeong Kang: Willow Drum Oriole, exhibition catalogue, ed. June Young Kwak and Harry Choi, Leeum Museum, Berlin: Hatze Cantz Verlag (2024)