Seihee Cho
B. Rake, 2024
Wood and bead
60 x 120 cm

B Rake

In her lean curation Taehyun Jung places Seihee Cho's work at the centrepiece of a rarefied Karesansui - A Zen Garden. Yet this implement can form no patterns on the smooth gravel-less gallery floor except via our imagination. This comb for a bald man stands at knee height, its errant single frond transforming it into a self supporting structure.

Nestled within the split formed by the mutation is a single red bead. This eye breathes animation into the sculpture. The unadorned plywood, its layering exposed, is austere and primes the viewer for meditation. The rake devoid of its shaft breaks its functional programming to become an abstraction of a centipede.

There is the microcosmal grandeur of a viaduct in the mini arches. The repetition of pleasing undulated fingers terminates with an inverted anomaly. This we can call Fukinsei. An asymmetry that represents potential and evolution.

Seen on Thu 7 May 2026 at Temporary Gallery, NW1 1HJ, London as part of a group exhibition 'Oblique Gaze' curated by Taehyun Jung. Until 9 May.