Exhibition Information

Exhibition view

Exhibition view

Exhibition view

Exhibition view

			Kukje Gallery is pleased to present Gala Porras-Kim’s solo exhibition Conditions for holding a natural form, on view in the gallery’s K1 space from September 2 to October 26, 2025. Porras-Kim’s work interrogates how cultural institutions organize their collections, focusing especially on those classification systems that shape how objects are produced, perceived, and preserved. Her work poignantly reveals the mechanisms that underlie conventional museological practices and proposes methods for recognizing the multiple functions and histories of cultural objects. In her first exhibition with Kukje Gallery, Porras-Kim presents two groups of drawings that explore abstraction and the ways human-constructed categories are applied to naturally-occurring and organic forms.

The front room of K1 is dedicated to five works titled Signal, each drawing made in collaboration with nature.  While most museums and art institutions strictly regulate humidity as a means to preserve objects, Porras-Kim actively incorporates this element into her process to generate spontaneous “signals.” Produced in various locations around the world since 2021, each Signal is created from a work known as Forecasting Signal (2021–ongoing), which uses a suspended fabric soaked with graphite and an industrial dehumidifier that collects and releases moisture from the interior environment for the duration of an exhibition.