Suk Kuhn Oh
The Text Book (Chulsoo & Younghee, p. 19)

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Artist Suk Kuhn OhKorean, born 1979

CultureKorean

Titles

The Text Book (Chulsoo & Younghee, p. 19)
from the series The Text Book

Date2006

MediumChromogenic print

DimensionsImage: 9 3/4 x 12 in. (24.8 x 30.5 cm)
Sheet: 10 15/16 x 13 15/16 in. (27.8 x 35.4 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by James Edward Maloney in honor of Joan Morgenstern and Clinton T. Willour

Object number2008.613

Not on view

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Photography

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PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionIn his series, The Text Book, Suk Kuhn Oh explores the power of childhood memories. Playing off the storybook characters Chul-Soo and Young-Hee-the Korean equivalents of "Dick and Jane" or "Jack and Jill"-Oh turns his friends into life-sized puppets who wear masks of Chul-Soo and Young-Hee. He then asks them to reenact painful, embarrassing, or bizarre childhood memories, with the hope that these photographs will rob the memory of its emotional power over the present.
ProvenanceThe artist, Pocheon, South Korea; purchased by MFAH, 2008.
Exhibition History"Chaotic Harmony: Contemporary Korean Photography," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Cameron Gallery and Beck Lower Level Corridor, October 18, 2009 - January 3, 2010.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Signed and dated in ink on a separate sheet of paper filed in with the Accession records. The artwork is unsigned.

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