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Start Your JournalUntitled (Red Textile Installation)
by Soojin Kang
Personal Reflection
At first, it feels soft. Then you realize how controlled it is. Every thread is placed, held, repeated. It’s not fragile, it’s precise. Standing in front of it, I kept shifting my position, trying to understand what I was looking at. But the work doesn’t resolve. It keeps slipping between surface and depth, between object and atmosphere. It made me think about how much effort goes into things that appear effortless. And how often we overlook repetition as a form of devotion. There’s something almost quiet but intense here. Like a system built slowly, patiently, until it becomes something you can step into.
About This Artwork
This installation by Soojin Kang transforms textile into something spatial and almost architectural. Suspended strands of red fabric stretch vertically, creating a field that feels both permeable and dense. Rooted in traditions of fiber art yet distinctly contemporary, the work explores repetition, tension, and the quiet discipline of making. Kang’s practice often sits between sculpture and drawing. Instead of lines on paper, she draws with threads in space. The material carries associations of labor, care, and domesticity, but here it is elevated into something more abstract and meditative. The red is not decorative. It feels deliberate, almost symbolic, hinting at vitality, memory, or even something bodily. The installation changes depending on how you move around it. From one angle, it looks like a solid curtain. From another, it dissolves into individual lines. That instability becomes part of the work.
- Artist
- Soojin Kang
- Location
- Je Vous Propose, Zurich
- Date experienced
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