Sun K. Kwak: Enfolding 280 Hours

Installing Enfolding 280 Hours

Korean-born, New York Citybased artist Sun K. Kwak is creating a site-specific work composed of approximately three miles of black masking tape in the fifth-floor Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Gallery. The mural-like piece will be affixed to the walls and pillars.

The exhibition's title, Enfolding 280 Hours, references the number of hours the artist estimates it will take her and her assistants to install the piece in the gallery. Work on the installation will begin in early February, and Museum visitors will be able to view the work in progress. At the end of the Brooklyn presentation and after photographic documentation, the masking tape will be peeled off the columns and walls and discarded.

Drawing with masking tape has become her signature form of expression. Kwak continues to challenge perceptions of familiar surroundings with this technique, which for her is both meditative and performative.

Special thanks to Shurtape Technologies, LLC and Ch'i Contemporary Fine Art.

March 27July 5, 2009
Brooklyn Museum
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/sun_k_kwak

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[howLUDE]

wow ... deep for some tape ... :) ... love it

[ernestomenendezconde]

Biennalist,

It seems you have to do your best for not reducing art to a direct representation of social conflicts. Your perspective just shows a significant lack of understanding of the importance of art in the everyday life. I would suggest you to think about how art can change life through ways that have nothing to do with a direct critic of society. Art has a different way of relating to society, which has nothing to do with partisan committment, or political criticism.

[biennialist]

Very significant. This has compelled me to ponder in depth the absolutely frivolous and meaningless world we live in, where this use of time and energy is not only encouraged, but celebrated. Really sad. Imagine being such a person that would do this with their time in this world of such injustice and beauty, to use your time engaged thusly. Very sad. Almost as ridiculous as that dead shark in a jeweled skull scam artist.

Then, while world burns, people starve and others become "famous".

[garymclaughlin]

Beautiful. WIsh there was a longer video of the work - I can't get to the exhibit in person.