Mitchell Fine Art welcomes Susie's Choi's upcoming exhibition 'Searching Chords', presenting her latest body of ceramic and multimedia artworks from 15 - 31 August 2024.
Susie Choi is an Australian-born artist living and working on Gadigal and Wangal Land (Sydney).
Choi's practice is guided by ideas that confound and amuse her. The sources of inspiration for the pieces in this show stem mainly from childhood, combining visual motifs from toys and playgrounds, and Australian and South Korean popular culture - iconic beaches combined with traditional Korean pastel saekdong stripes.
Her work sensitively combines colours and patterns from her South Korean heritage with personal experiences of growing up as second-generation Australian, ultimately crafting a visual dialect that gives definition to the challenges related to intersectionality and "otherness".
Extending on her background in linguistics, the works in Choi's new exhibition showcase visual and linguistic metaphors colliding in beautifully rendered, pastel sculptural artworks and her latest pieces have undertaken an intuitive evolution from studio to gallery walls.
Choi follows her artistic impulses, working towards concepts sometimes in spite of rational critique. But despite this abandonment of judgement, and her deeply inherent faith in her own processes, the works unmistakably reflect personal experiences of memory, perception, generational trauma and identity.
Her consciously misshapen forms amplify an internal dialogue about growing up as an othered person, witnessing her migrant parents experience discrimination, and internalising the values of an Australia that lacked representation of people who look like Choi in popular culture.
"Identity isn’t really something you can grasp. Even if you could, I suspect you wouldn’t actually want to keep hold of it. It’s often wrapped up in complexities related to memory, perception and generational trauma. Plus, it’s always in flux, so once the moment has passed, it’s probably time to readjust anyway" - Susie Choi.
In fact, in some of the works, Choi has brazenly disobeyed laws relating to traditional methods of working with porcelain and glaze. When mastering the craft, it becomes a particularly bold choice to venture into curiosity and play, and this exhibition showcases the results of Choi's encounters with discovery.
Susie Choi graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art in Ceramics in 2021 from the National Art School in Sydney and in 2024 was awarded the Emerging Artist Prize at University of Southern Queensland Art Awards.
NEED TO KNOW
Exhibition Opening - Saturday August 17th from 2pm with artist in attendance. All events are free.
Monday to Friday 10am - 5.30pm
Saturday 10am - 5pm
Parking available onsite.
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