SHIN Sangho

《Structure & Force》 Poster

Gallery Sklo is pleased to present Structure & Force, a solo exhibition by SHIN Sangho, one of the leading figures who has expanded the horizons of Korean contemporary ceramics. Following the artist’s major retrospective at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (Gwacheon), this exhibition focuses on the Structure & Force series, a body of work that lies at the core of his extensive artistic practice.

Installation View (1)

Working with clay as his primary medium, SHIN has developed a distinctive sculptural language that moves fluidly across the boundaries of ceramics, sculpture, craft, and fine art. The Structure & Force series most concisely embodies the central concepts that run throughout his work: structure and force, stillness and movement, matter and energy.

Installation View (2)

This exhibition concentrates on the series not to offer a chronological survey of the artist’s career, but rather to illuminate the conceptual framework that underpins his sculptural practice. Based on animal forms, these works are not intended as representations of specific creatures. Instead, they translate fundamental conditions of existence—survival, movement, tension, and vitality—into dynamic sculptural structures, condensing the energy of living beings into powerful forms.

Installation View (3)

The surfaces further intensify this sculptural tension. Flows and accumulations of glaze, together with weathered and eroded textures, function not merely as decoration but as traces of time and energy. They create material landscapes in which sculpture and painting converge. At the point where fixed structures collide with fluid forces, the works exist not as static objects but as forms in a continual state of vibration.

Installation View (4)

As viewers follow the flow of energy condensed within each sculpture, they become aware of the tension and temporality operating beneath the surface. The exhibition offers more than an encounter with form; it invites reflection on the artist’s enduring question of how matter acquires vitality and becomes imbued with life.

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