Gallery SEOMI presents solo exhibition of Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos to take place firstly in Korea. The pre-eminent Portuguese artist of her generation, she came to public attention for her display at the Venice Biennale in 2005. Her stunning sculpture A Noiva (The Bride) took the form of a chandelier made from around 25,000 tampons and greeted visitors to the Arsenale. Typical of her witty and often provocative work, these unglamorous objects belie the sculpture's grand structure.

Following the principles of the 1960s art movement Nouveau Realisme and acknowledging a debt to the ready-mades of Marcel Duchamp, Vasconcelos' work frequently incorporates objects from daily life into expansive assemblages.

A key aesthetic component of the exhibition is recognition or association and many of the works appropriate ceramic objects commonly found in Portuguese homes. In Rackham(2010), a lizard is wrapped in an elaborate coat of white crochet, while in Medeia(2010) a large ceramic lobster is covered in black crochet. The use of crochet alludes to an activity usually associated with women and traditional crafts but in these ingenious manipulations it is such perceptions rather than the activity itself which are rendered obsolete.