During the week of the first edition of Frieze Seoul, Galerie Marguo will present Threads, a solo presentation of recent works by American artist Rebecca Ness. Hosted by Korean gallery EDIT and on view through 24 September, this pop-up exhibition marks the artist’s first exhibition in Asia.
Almost exactly one year after her first solo exhibition Stepping Out with Marguo, Ness considers her new exhibition as a kind of cheshbon hanefesh, or ‘taking inventory of the soul’, a practice that the artist relates to her Jewish upbringing. Regarding her show in Seoul as an account of the past year, the artist engages the viewer by drawing them into the intertwined fabric of her creative life.
Comprising three large-scale oils on linen and three small gouaches on paper, the exhibition is titled Threads as, in the words of the artist, each work of the show gives ‘little clues to how narratives are all connected.' By embedding discarded sketches and paintings that match other paintings in the show, Ness reveals in Summer Studio (2022) how she looks back at her works and how she ‘sees’ herself as an artist.
