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Soeun Bae | Liquid Arrangement

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Glyndor Gallery
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Soeun Bae, "Dual Synthetic Circulation", 2022, silicone, silicone tube, filament, green liquid, purple liquid, syringe, acrylic and steel. Photo: Studio Offfish.

Multidisciplinary artist Soeun Bae uses sculpture, technology and performance to explore the concept of living within a body subject to dissection, mechanization and objectification. Her Sunroom exhibition Liquid Arrangement presents hypothetical sculptural tools designed for the regeneration of hybrid organisms that rely on human-made and controlled environments. The exhibition is partially inspired by the plant life in the Tropical House of the Marco Polo Stufano Conservatory at Wave Hill, originally designed and built in 1906 to house plants from warmer regions around the world. Here, plants thrive with the help of human hands which ensure adequate ventilation, watering, temperature and humidity. Bae also abstracts objects and their design from other frameworks of care, such as clinical treatment, intimate relationships and maternal nurturing, loosely referencing the anatomy of living forms, anthropology, human behavior and emotions. Liquid Arrangement reflects not only on our responsibility to nurture the existing human-made environment but also to create new care systems that necessitate agency and bodily autonomy. 

Organized by Curator of Visual Arts Rachel Raphaela Gugelberger, the Sunroom Project Space provides an opportunity for emerging artists in the New York City area to develop and present a site-specific project as a solo exhibition. The 2024 applications were reviewed by a panel of arts professionals including Kiara Cristina Ventura, writer, curator and founder of the roving curatorial platform Processa; Jacq Groves, 2023 Sunroom Project Space interdisciplinary artist and educator; and Gugelberger. 

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    Soeun Bae

    Soeun Bae is a multidisciplinary artist working with sculpture, technology and performance. Born in South Korea, she was raised in Alabama and currently resides in Brooklyn. Bae’s work has been exhibited in the AHL Foundation Gallery in New York; the Gelman Gallery, Red Eye Gallery, Woods-Gerry Gallery and Memorial Hall Gallery in Providence, RI; and at L.A.D., Geunwonji and Projectspacewip in Seoul, South Korea. She earned a BFA in sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, is a 2023 recipient of the T&W Contemporary Visual Art Award from the AHL Foundation, and was a 2024 artist-in-residence at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, CO.

    Learn more about the artist at soeunbae.com.

    Photo: Studio Offfish.

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