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Shinuk Suh, The Fabulous Life #2, 2022. Digital photograph. Courtesy the artist
Exhibition
Invites: Shinuk Suh
22 Sep 2022 – 30 Oct 2022
Regular hours
- Thursday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 12:00 – 18:00
Free admission
Address
- 176 Prince of Wales Road
- London
- NW5 3PT
- United Kingdom
Zabludowicz Collection is pleased to present an Invites exhibition by London-based Korean artist Shinuk Suh. Working across kinetic technologies, textile and steel industrial structures, Suh has transformed the galley into a factory.
About
The installation portrays a production setting in which a narrative unfolds across a series of sculptural works. Combining satire and manufacture, Suh deconstructs the interconnectedness of human and machine. Through exquisite assembly and the reappropriation of industrial motors, the artist’s highly realistic factory is riddled with awkward incompetence as bodiless figures slide and flop across it.
For Suh, the figure is a factory-produced object, with the factory acting as a metaphor for today’s societal structures. The machines make the character behave and act in a certain way, as a critique of the oppressive nature of contemporary social institutions. Together, the works employ story, humour and the absurd to navigate the comedic tragedy of modern life.
