Taping the Brooklyn Museum – Sun K. Kwak

Korean-born, New York City based artist Sun K. Kwak installing Enfolding 280 Hours, a site-specific work composed of approximately three miles of black masking tape in the fifth-floor of the Brooklyn Museum. One of those times when I think, “Ah, I wish I thought of that!” Pretty Cool!

My first reaction to the visual and emotional qualities of a given space is rendered through my spontaneous tape drawings. My drawings are born through the communion between the material and the spiritual, wherein my own self is constantly reflected emptying itself. In creating restrained and refined expression with mundane, mass-produced masking tape, the juxtaposition of value-of both medium and of expression- underscores my effort to strike a balance between polarizing principles. Myself transferred into the black lines orchestrates the dynamism of energies generated between the architecture’s idiosyncrasy and its surroundings. Structural tensions are now liberated into a new ‘pictorial reality’ where the viewers are invited. As they step into these three dimensional drawings, their visual perception is expended to another dimension of time and space. {Read More…}