This first major exhibition in Germany by the artist Kim Sooja includes a walk-in room installation, which focuses on handling fabric as a medium and on the action of sewing, a typically female domain, as well as several video installations.
The work A Laundry Woman (2000) consists of traditional Korean fabrics hung up on thin ropes as if put up to dry. The visitor is invited to move among the fabrics used in Korea as bed sheets - this is were people love, sleep, give birth and die - and to experience both the beauty and usage of the material.
The uprooting of the self is demonstrated by Kim Sooja at the various locations of her filmed performances. In A Needle Woman (1999 - 2001) she is standing motionless in the midst of the moving crowds of people in the metropolises of Tokyo, Shanghai, New York, Delhi, Cairo, Mexico, London and Lagos. It is her very isolation that unites the people who thread themselves around her like a colourful social fabric
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