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Ernesto Neto portrait | images courtesy SeMA, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery<\/p>\n
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sema suspends colossal crocheted artworks<\/p>\n
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Ernesto Neto\u2019s installation at the Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA<\/strong><\/a>) is composed of expansive crochet structures woven from industrial cotton fabrics in shades of brown and pink. These colors, chosen to evoke tree trunks and night alongside flowers and day, establish a dialogue between natural rhythms and architectural structure. Suspended and filled with dried guava leaves and locally sourced tea leaves, the artist<\/strong><\/a>\u2018s forms invite a multi-sensory encounter that engages smell both texture together.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n By occupying the museum\u2019s lobby and adjacent open spaces, the work introduces an organic intervention into the building\u2019s otherwise linear architecture. The flowing crochet forms generate a cyclical sense of space, suggesting continuity and transformation rather than fixed boundaries. Visitors move through and around the installation, encountering shifting relations between center and periphery, interior and exterior.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n the installation\u2019s onomatopoeic title<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The title \u2018Ba Ka Ba\u2019 functions as an onomatopoeic expression, its mirrored syllables referencing cycles and flows. This rhythm extends into the work\u2019s conceptual framework: polarities such as body and space, sensation and thought, or self and other are not held apart but brought into dialogue. For Neto, these intersections remain central to his practice, recalling his ties to the Brazilian Neo-Concrete movement of the late 1950s and 1960s, which emphasized participation, sensation, and subjective experience.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n These ideas are reimagined within Seoul\u2019s contemporary urban context. The installation offers an open environment where visitors become part of the work itself and embody a condition of exchange and interrelation. The sensory components extend beyond the visual to affirm art\u2019s role in daily life.<\/p>\n![\"ernesto](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ernesto-neto-ba-ka-ba-dance-eternal-polarities-seoul-museum-art-south-korea-designboom-02.jpg\")
Ernesto Neto presents \u2018Ba Ka Ba, a Dance of the Eternal Polarities\u2019 at the Seoul Museum of Art<\/p>\n![\"ernesto](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ernesto-neto-ba-ka-ba-dance-eternal-polarities-seoul-museum-art-south-korea-designboom-03.jpg\")
the installation fills the Seosomun Main Branch lobby with crochet structures<\/p>\n![\"ernesto](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ernesto-neto-ba-ka-ba-dance-eternal-polarities-seoul-museum-art-south-korea-designboom-05.jpg\")
the work is filled with dried guava leaves and locally sourced tea leaves<\/p>\n![\"ernesto](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ernesto-neto-ba-ka-ba-dance-eternal-polarities-seoul-museum-art-south-korea-designboom-06.jpg\")
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