2014/03/28 An invitation
Dear Friends
Next week, I'm going to having a little exhibition with very special offer in Sydney. If you are around here, please come over for opening night. The exhibition is at Gaffa art gallery, 281 Clarence street, near by QVB, just center of Sydney. Opening night is 3rd of April in the evening 6-8. My exhibition is a month, if you can't come for opening night, still you have enough time to see!
i have to change my air ticket, trying to ring to Korean air so many times but there is no answer, what happen with Korean air!
So, I'll be arrive at Seoul 1day later !
Artist Statement for the Exhibition
Sun-Hui Koh: Entropy and Diaspora
My idea for these works is to convey the Jeju emigre experience in the
post-war period through the medium of Jeju dreaming, cosmology and
handcrafted textiles.
Jeju culture and identity has been pulled in opposing directions by the rise
of modern Korea and the powerful, centralising forces of the post-war
Korean state.
For my people, the Jeju, this has meant exile to Japan to resist assimilation in Korea.
For Jeju spirituality, Korea and Japan are powerful, celestial forces. Neither are benevolent.
For Jeju spirituality, the result is disorder - and counter-efforts by Jeju
to try and hold on to the fragments of our identity - Jeju language
and customs.
The chaos depicted in my knits represent cosmic clouds and nebulas,
remnants of creation's dawn. The circles are discrete, contained,
orderly confluences that cohere to their own rules, always gyrating out
until their energy is spent.
And then we are assimilated.
Every pattern is random. But none can be accidental because they conform to
rules of knits, without which nothing can bind and hold together.
And yet there is no control over how a particular work will evolve - or what Jeju identity will become.
We are in entropy.
