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

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

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The Text Book (Chulsoo & Younghee, p. 19)
The Text Book (Chulsoo & Younghee, p. 19)
ArtistKorean, 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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Department
Photography
Object Type
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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