Suki Seokyeong Kang is the subject of a solo exhibition titled Square, See, Triangle at the Children’s Gallery in the Buk-Seoul Museum of Art (hereafter Buk-SeMA) through March 10, 2020. Square, See, Triangle is the thirteenth edition of the museum’s Children’s Exhibition series. This exhibition encourages viewers to reflect on their existing thoughts and ideas within the prototypical square frame of art, and ultimately create a triangular dialogue amongst the viewer, the art, and others. Known for her works that explore and reinterpret various traditional forms and methodologies from Korean culture, Kang invites the viewer to reflect on the role of tradition today and create one’s unique story by viewing and interacting with the works on view in this show.

The installation in Children’s Gallery 1 revolves around the Poseokjeong, a stone water channel typically nestled in traditional Korean pavilions where aristocrats would gather to socialize and hold poetry recitals. A venue of refined taste and for leisure, the audience can walk along the undulating path that simulates the Poseokjeong and view Kang’s representative sculptural installations including Jeong, Mat, and Heavy Rounds. All works on view consist of basic geometric shapes such as the triangle, square, and circle, inviting the audience to consider these fundamental forms throughout the exhibition. The show then segues into Children’s Gallery 2, which introduces a video work titled Black Mat Oriole_movement and provides an interactive space in which viewers can comprehend and imitate the activator’s movements from the video. These movements can also be visually reinterpreted on the desks that are also placed in Children’s Gallery 2—the audience can draw their variations of activation by referring to the drawings that record the activator’s movements in the video. Baek Ji-sook, director of the SeMA, has anticipated for “the audience to create their own stories while slowly walking along the exhibition landscape with Kang’s works that have been stacked, wrapped, and woven.” In addition, two new catalogs, each taking the form of a workbook and a children’s storybook, have been co-published with Rasun Press in order to help children understand this exhibition and works within.