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Current Exhibition "Floating Dimensions" installation by Seonghi Bahk June 14 - July 19, 2008 Floating Dimensions : Installation view, Charcoal, Nylon threads Sabina Lee Gallery is proud to present “Floating Dimensions”, working with large numbers of charcoal into the installation, and sculptures of flattened dimension by artist, Seonghi Bahk. Seonghi Bahk creates a unique, sublime- sized sculptures which consist of interconnected form and the spaces naturally held within these removable elements through hanging a large number of charcoal. Endowing a specific meaning to the space with charcoal suspended by nylon threads, his works exists beyond the boundary between the past and the present, transience and permanence, reality and illusion, East and West. The construction of installation itself seems to stand in solidity. But, it is in a fragile state that demands us to imagine that the construction as not finished forms but as being ‘under construction’, and intends to express “the essence of materials”. Similarly, the geometric shapes: quadrangles, circles, and pillars, installed in the space are as much real as they are illusive. In the exhibition, installation space is occupied by a spiral stair that stop functioning as stairs where dark lumps emerge into reality, and as the same time the space gets a site-specific meaning from the illusive stairs. Strolling and observing inside the space, the viewer can discover beyond the firm non-being, and the fragility of being that can easily vanish. It is in the interplay between being and non-being that a satisfying tension is established and developed, leading us to think about the essence of existence beyond or under fragile forms. “Point of View” is a series of flattened dimension of well-sculpture in ordinary objects such as table, chair, pencil holder. The perspective of the white-sculpture reveals the illusion of its actual dimensions of the object, but it is a flattened structure in real dimensions. Seonghi Bahk’s simple and structural work at the site- specific installation goes beyond a physical existence, the impermanence of human material culture, and shows us a passage to conceptual existence. Seonghi Bahk had his artist practice at the Accademia di Belle Arti Brera in Milan, and has presented his work internationally such as Spain, Beijing, Berlin, Milan and Seoul. “Floating Dimensions” is his first solo exhibition in the United State.