Overview
Sunah Choi (b. Busan, Korea, 1968; lives and works in Berlin) is interested in processes of abstraction as applied to concrete points in time, places, and phenomena. By resolving objects into clusters and superimpositions of projected images, she investigates the aesthetic quality of natural things and the furniture of everyday life. Her videos, performances, installations, photographs, and drawings interrogate entrenched ideas and traditional patterns of perception, with a particular focus on the visual representations of other cultures embedded in the collective memory. Choi received this year's Hannah-Höch-Förderpreis, an award given out by the State of Berlin to a rising local artist in recognition of his or her growing oeuvre's out standing quality.
This book, which contains three eight-page inserts designed by the artist, presents a richly illustrated survey of Choi's work of the past ten years. Choi offers reflections on her art in a conversation with Thomas Bayrle and the graphic designer Markus Weisbeck. With essays by Sabeth Buchmann and Andreas Schlaegel and a preface by Dominik Bartmann.
