No.9 Cork Street concludes its 2022 programme with solo shows of Yunchul Kim, representative of 2022 Venice Biennale Korean Pavilion, Chung Seoyoung, a defining sculptor of the Korean contemporary art scene since 1990’s, and Sojung Jun, awardee of 18th Hermes Foundation Missulsang. The exhibitions are presented by Seoul-based gallery Barakat Contemporary and will run from 1-17 December 2022, with an Artist Talk of Chung Seoyoung with Chus Martinez (Director of FHNW Academy of Art and Design, Basel) taking place on 1 December, 4-6pm at No.9 Cork Street.

The ground floor exhibition will include a new variation of Yunchul Kim’s installation La Poussière de Soleils (The Dust of Suns), 2022, first shown at the Korean Pavilion at 2022 Venice Biennale. A nod to French poet Raymond Roussel’s play ‘La Poussière de Soleils (The Dust of Suns)’, the installation is a living sculpture that merges the artificial and natural to create a kaleidoscope of colours. At the foundation of Kim’s “living” creatures is his interest in the essence or the innate physical properties of materials, making visible a different kind of reality from what is immediately perceptible to our human senses. Exploring the artistic potential of the “world of materials” – a universe perceived as an embodied, physical precursor of linguistic expression, Kim calls attention to the world where humans, objects, materials, and matter interact in continuous entanglement.

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