Artist
Suk Kuhn OhKorean, born 1979
CultureKorean
Titles
- The Text Book (Chulsoo & Younghee, p. 31)
- from the series The Text Book
Date2006
MediumChromogenic print
DimensionsImage: 9 13/16 x 12 in. (24.9 x 30.5 cm)
Sheet: 10 15/16 x 13 15/16 in. (27.8 x 35.4 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 number2008.614
Not on view
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PhotographyObject Type
In his series The Text Book, Suk Kuhn Oh explores the
power of childhood memories. Playing off the storybook characters Chulsoo and
Yonghee (the Korean equivalents of “Dick and Jane” or “Jack and Jill”), Oh
turns his friends into life-sized puppets who wear masks of Chulsoo and
Yonghee. 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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