Forgive yourself for everything

Soojin Kang

Info: Galerie Khoshbakht is pleased to announce Soojin Kang’s first exhibition with the gallery Forgive yourself for everything. Throughout Soojin Kang’s artistic practice, weaving, entwining, and interlocking have been important and central methodologies. Grounded in a fascination with the atypical possibilities of textile, and sensing the deeper societal and autobiographical referents, formatively whilst working in the fashion industry, and subsequently as a bespoke furniture designer, Kang continues to employ a vernacular of handcraft techniques. Kang’s method of inquiry, an attempt to truly imbue her materials with the potential for meaning, often necessitates an entirely artisanal approach to making. Avoiding the use of mass produced, or manufactured materials, Kang very often begins with natural dyes, and unprocessed raw twine. Her deep awareness of, and desire to understand her natural environment, establishes for Kang an ecology, one that seeks to balance the voice of the artist, her materials, the forms she produces, and their reception. (…)