Sol Kjok- Artwork
Sol Kjoks imagery is the visual terminus of a much longer method, and perhaps its extravisual meaning is to be found in the archeology of its making: Driven by a desire to first experience as manifest reality the symbolic content of the images, her process starts with performances staged in the studio, where Sol and her models attempt acrobatic exercises: They walk the tight rope, strenuously climb wires suspended from the ceiling, balance on balls and twist their bodies into a myriad of uncomfortable positions. It is important that this initial physical experience —ripe with the potential for injuries and skin-against-skin contact—lives on in the final pieces, as she strives to convey a bodily awareness of the paradox of strength and vulnerability that is the human condition.
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