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In Living Energy, Key-Sook Geum’s fourth solo exhibition at Callan Contemporary, Eastern and Western notions of form and shadow, positive and negative space, unite. In a ravishingly beautiful suite of sculptural objects, Geum weaves together delicately shaped webs of gold and black wire with pearl, coral, amber, and crystal beads, transforming simple but luxuriant materials into a network of intersecting lines, planes, and curves. Working in her studio in Seoul, South Korea, Geum adapts simplified forms from ceremonial dresses, jackets, and vests of 17th and 18th Century Korea and the Qing …