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Kimchi juice: the art medium of the future

30-Sep-06
I went to the "Give me Shelter" exhibition at the Union Gallery one lunchtime this week, as it's only 15 minutes walk from my office. I'll be going back again. Possibly the easiest works to relate to are the biggest and the smallest. Hyungkoo Lee's skeletal coyote and roadrunner occupied a whole room, atmospherically lit. As for the smallest exhibits -- well, you could almost miss them: Dongwook Lee's tiny human figures, only a couple of inches high at most, mounted on little shelves here and there. The most sinister was a nude male figure with arms where the legs should be. There's some large-scale sculptural work (Osang Gwon - above right) which looks like ceramics but is in ...
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