The MOCA chief curator's choices from Frieze Viewing Room include works by Hadi Falapishi, Alison Saar and Megumi Yuasa.
Lee ShinJa, Conversation between Circles IV, 1973
Cotton, linen thread, tapestry, 177 × 112 cm. Presented by Tina Kim Gallery.
It has been exhilarating getting a glimpse into the work of the pioneering first-generation Korean fibre artist Lee ShinJa who Tina Kim Gallery has been representing of late. Demonstrating the global reach of fibre art, Lee’s work is a window into the little-known context of its developments in Korea, and more generally in East Asia. Lee’s Conversation between Circles series of the 1970s is tied to a very personal and spiritual journey for the artist bringing the transcendental into the act of making.
—Clara Kim
