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  "description": "Soojin Kang works with hand-dyed fibre and natural yarn. Based in Germany. A Catapult Artist in Focus on textile sculpture and the body's threshold.",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-03-28T10:19:21.000Z",
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    "Gathering, London",
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  "textContent": "**Soojin Kang**\n\n**Born:**\nSeoul, South Korea, 1978\n\n**Based in:**\nKulmbach, Germany\n\n**Medium:**\nTextile Sculpture, Installation, Site-Specific Work\n\n**Education:**\nMA Textile Futures, Central Saint Martins, London, 2009\n\n**Recent Exhibitions:**\n_Forgive yourself for everything_ , Galerie Khoshbakht, Cologne, 2024\n_To Be You, Whoever You Are_ , Gathering, London, 2023\n_Landscape_ , Ben Hunter, London, 2022\n\n**Collection:**\nVictoria & Albert Museum, London (work _Fall_ , acq. 2017)\n\n**Represented by:**\n\nGathering, London\n\n\n**Photography:**\nRocio Chacon; Hannes Heinzer; Damian Griffiths; Gery Hutton; Ben Hunter; Rocio Chancon\n\n**Image Courtesy:**\nCourtesy the Artist and Gathering, London\n\n## **Soojin Kang - Textile Sculpture and Installation**\n\nThread begins here. Not as material to be shaped, but as something with its own logic, warm, vascular, already tending toward form. Soojin Kang works through weaving, knotting, winding and unwinding, not as craft technique but as a form of thinking: a process that presses raw fibre into structures it seems to already know.\n\n> Fibre arrives already knowing its direction. In Kang's hands, the question is not what to make of it, but how long to follow.\n\nWorking primarily with raw silk, hemp, jute, linen and cotton, often hand-dyed, Kang builds from fibre outward into forms that resist easy category. The works retain traces of their organic origins without resolving them: shapes that recall engorged anthers, swollen larvae, structures positioned somewhere between organism and relic.\n\nThe associations that handmade textile media typically carry, wholesome, domestic, nurturing, are cut through here with something adjacent to the monstrous. Raw edges, earthy pigments, and a scale that refuses comfort.\n\n****Soojin Kang**** , ‘Soojin Kang’, Je Vous Propose, Zurich, 2022, Courtesy of the artist and Je Vous Propose, photo by Hannes HeinzerSoojin Kang, “Inner Sea’, Ben Hunter, London, 2022, Courtesy of the artist and Ben Hunter, photo by Damian Griffiths****Soojin Kang**** , “Inner Sea’, Ben Hunter, London, 2022, Courtesy of the artist and Ben Hunter, photo by Damian Griffiths\n\nIn  _Landscape_ (2022), shown at Ben Hunter, London, hundreds of coiled, crimson-dyed tubular forms mass across the gallery floor, 425 × 390 cm of hand-dyed jute, silk, cotton, linen and hemp that spreads like a sea surface or an interior organ system seen from above.\n\nA concurrent wall piece from the same period pulls black fibre across a 250 × 280 cm form that buckles inward at its centre, its cavity revealing material from an entirely different register. Both seem to grow rather than arrive.\n\nIn  _To Be You, Whoever You Are_ (2023), presented by Gathering in London, Kang approached the human figure for the first time. Metal armatures wrapped in silk, linen, cotton, jute and hemp become figures larger than life-size, faceless, fraying at their edges, with steel extending beyond the textile into trailing wire at their feet.\n\nThey hold the proportions of bodies while refusing to be bodies. Devoid of recognisable features and disintegrating at the boundary between inside and out, these presences seem to exist like fragments of ancient statuary, artefact and organism at once, demanding recognition without offering resemblance.\n\nMore recently, Kang has introduced concrete, plaster and cement into her material language. In the  _Stand_ and  _Untitled_ works shown at MiArt Milan and Galerie Khoshbakht, Cologne (both 2024), clusters of fibre erupt from molded blocks, pushing through like tree burls or keloid tissue. Kang has spoken of interest in \"the parts of the body that we can't see\": the shapes that form on interior surfaces through injury or sickness, following their own cellular logic toward the surface.\n\nWhat holds across the span of the work, from the suspended seed-pod forms of  _Growth_ (2017) to the woven figures to the concrete-bound pieces, is a refusal to resolve the thing the fibre is doing. The material never fully becomes what it echoes; the form never fully loses the fibre it was made from.\n\nThe concrete holds the fibre. The fibre holds nothing back.\n\n* * *\n\nInstagram Soojin Kang\n\n* * *\n\n## **Noteable Artworks and Exhibition views:**\n\n****Soojin Kang**** “ To Be You Whoever You Are’, London, 2023, Courtesy of the artist and Gathering London, photo by Gery Hutton\n\n****Soojin Kang**** ,  __To Be You, Whoever You Are V and VI,__ 2023 Metal armature, silk, linen, cotton, jute, hemp, Courtesy of the artist and Gathering London, photo by Grey Hutton\n\n****Soojin Kang**** , “Growth’, Unit 9, London, 2017, Courtesy of the artist and Unit 9, photo by this Rocio Chancon\n\n****Soojin Kang**** , ‘Pod I and II, 2017, Metal armature, silk, linen, cotton, jute, hemp , courtesy of the artist and Unit 9, photo by Rocio Chancon\n\n****Soojin Kang**** “ To Be You Whoever You Are’, London, 2023, Courtesy of the artist and Gathering London, photo by Gery Hutton ****Soojin Kang**** , “Untitled’, 2018, Cotton, raw silk, Courtesy of the artist and Ben Hunter****Soojin Kang**** ‘ Untitled’, 2020, Metal, cotton, linen, raw silk, Courtesy of the artist and Ben Hunter\n\n* * *\n\n## Related Readings:\n\nArtist in Focus\n\n## Bérénice Gaça Courtin: Weaving as Encrypted Memory\n\nRead More\n\nExhibition\n\n## Villa Bernasconi: Stitches – A Haunted House and Other Ghost Stories\n\nRead More\n\nInterview\n\n## Hugo Brazão: Sculpting Escapism in a World of Fabric, Fiction, and Form\n\nRead More",
  "title": "Where Does the Skin End and the Fibre Begin? Soojin Kang with an Artist in Focus on Catapult",
  "updatedAt": "2026-03-29T09:10:14.409Z"
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