Seon Ghi Bahk. Fiction of the Fabricated Image on view at Zadok Gallery

Through August 25, 2014

Seon Ghi Bahk is known for his irresistibly light works of charcoal suspended by nylon threads placed just so as to take on a variety of forms, both representational and abstract. His recent work delves into the relationship between nature and civilized culture.

Seon Ghi Bahk uses charcoal, a natural substance that is the ghost of trees that once stood around us, to replicate architectural forms that human beings design to shelter us in the present day. It is this marriage of the human-made civilized culture that is architecture with nature that the artist is asking us to contemplate, and more precisely, what that relationship says about us as a species.

Seon Ghi Bahk reminds us that this way of thinking is not only foolish; it is fiction. Like his airy representations of columns are possible due only to an organic geological process, the development of human culture is inescapably impossible without nature.

Zadok Gallery
2534 North Miami Avenue
Miami, FL 33127
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