“Suki Seokyeong Kang: Willow Drum Oriole”
Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul
Sep. 7–Dec. 31, 2023
This exhibition by Suki Seokyeong Kang at Seoul’s Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art highlights the artist’s uniquely recombinant and historically inspired artmaking practice. “Willow Drum Oriole” will feature a bevy of new works by Kang, including new approaches to existing works such as her “Mat” series, which Kang initiated as part of her U.S. museum debut, “Black Mat Oriole,” at ICA Philadelphia in 2017. There will also be a number of new sculptures, video works, and paintings, all of which the artist will bring together into “choreographed scenographies” that “connect each space like an archipelago,” according to a statement from the museum.
Kang—who is represented by Tina Kim Gallery and Kukje Gallery, and was featured in The Artsy Vanguard 2019—creates works that draw on traditions of fabric-making, court dance, and Korean notational systems, among many other historical precedents. In “Willow Drum Oriole,” such works will be placed in conversation with pieces from the Leeum’s Korean art collection, allowing for a fruitful, cross-temporal meditation of tradition and contemporaneity.
—Justin Kamp
