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| Henrietta Schricke | |||
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| Sunsook Roh |
| Address: 13 Eastwood Walk, Singapore 486465
Sunsook is an installation sculptor and performance artist currently living in Singapore and New York. She has exhibited installation sculpture in Singapore, Tokyo and New York, and also did performance works in New York and Seoul. She obtained a BFA in Sculpture and a Minor in Art History from Parsons School of Design in New York in 1997. In 2003, she obtained a MFA in Sculpture from Bard College, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, New York.
Artist Statement: In my art, I deal with no single issue or concern. My works embody recurring themes and interests on interconnected levels. The first level is a strong and free energy flow that is the deterministic continuum of time. The next level is the transience of our own existence and death; the temporality of life, and the inevitable process of transformation. This level tests our limited comprehension of the unpredictable, as well as our uncertainty about tomorrow. The final level is my internal compass through my relationship with God.? Making works to me is like growing a plant. My starting idea is like a seed of inert energy, which gets activated through the involuntary artistic process at an emotional and intuitive level. I try to allow my subconscious or unconscious mind and the dexterity of my hands to lead me to the finishing level of the artwork. Organic and biomorphic lines, shapes, and forms often become means of my artistic expressions of energy flow. Water is the most fundamental natural resource for life. I have a deep interest in water and made many works with this particular theme. In its continuous flowing, water is at once passing and permanent. Water constitutes the essence of all cellular life, but in a calamity, can also be the harbinger of death and destruction. Watching the rain, or the dripping of water caught in action is enough to almost put me in trance over its purity and transparence; its state of being and becoming at the same time.? The mesmerizing beauty and overwhelmingly threatening power of water fascinate me. Transience is my own personal struggle, as I grapple with my identity gained and lost through living in different countries. I was born and grew up in Korea, but I never made art there. I lived for decades in the United States, completed my art education and exhibited there, but I retain my Korean passport. Regardless of my wish to go back home to make works in my own studio in New York, reality does not allow me to do that. Singapore is my new home for now and I made many friends here and even got used to the unchanging heat in this tropical weather. Transience, temporality and impermanence are the reality that I experience as an ¡®in-betweener.¡¯ This process of personal experience finds expression in my art.? Many of my works are about the process of transformation. While natural processes generally follow repetitious tendencies, there is simultaneously the chaotic moment or randomness, which is also part of the natural process from cellular division to the expansion of the universe. My interest in the complexity of life processes stems from my own limited comprehension of the unpredictable. Through all this, my freedom and liberty only seem possible because of my relationship with God. Selected Exhibitions:
Excerpts from Solo Show "Let the Rivers Clap Their Hands :
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