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Written by: Kwon Taehyun
Title: You Must Pierce Things to Sew
Min Sung-Hong stitches things. He disassembles used furniture someone discarded in the streets to connect them to other objects or folds scrapped paintings and sews them together. As such, his works often involve sewing. Sewing is basically about connecting things. To be more specific, sewing is piercing through things to stitch different objects together instead of gluing them. The same is true when you string beads, sew something with a thread, or staple things together with a stapler. Piercing does not leave the original object as …