Movimiento 37, SOLO’s initiative dedicated to connecting the global artistic community, presents The Engineering of Comfort, the first solo exhibition in Spain by South Korean artist Shinuk Suh. Free to access and hosted in the Movimiento 37 space within SOLO CSV, the exhibition will be on view until February 21 and is presented in collaboration with the Korean Cultural Center Spain.
The Engineering of Comfort
In The Engineering of Comfort, Suh examines how social systems—productivity, discipline, emotional regulation—gradually infiltrate the body, reshaping its rhythms, gestures, and behaviors until it becomes an almost autonomous inner machinery. While earlier works focused on external structures—the factory, ideology, labor—here the attention turns inward: the factory folds into the body, and the assembly line now runs through muscular memory.
The exhibition brings together a constellation of sculptures and installations produced in 2021, including Biometric Syndrome, Hey, It is me!, Modified Duration, and The Faultless Body #6. Each work isolates a fragment of the body and binds it to structures that oscillate between ritual device and ergonomic trap. Bodies move, tremble, or remain suspended not as choreography, but as evidence: movement becomes data, tremor becomes record.
Sighing motors, vibrating arms, unfinished gestures: the figures created by Suh perform an involuntary choreography, an intimate mechanics learned from systems that, for decades, have delegated discipline to our very bones. The artist describes these works as an “aesthetics of maintenance”—bodies that do not strive forward but seek stabilization; organisms whose primary function is to prevent collapse.
About the artist
Born in 1988, Shinuk Suh is a South Korean artist working across sculpture, installation, and light-based media. He has presented solo exhibitions at Zabludowicz Collection (London), Daniel Benjamin Gallery (London), FOUNDRY SEOUL (Seoul), BEERS London, and Gallery2 (Seoul).
Shinuk Suh at Movimiento 37
He has participated in international exhibitions and biennials including the 7th Changwon Sculpture Biennale (South Korea), MUDAM Luxembourg, UVNT Madrid, and SOLO Collection (Madrid). His practice has been recognized with nominations such as the Gilbert Bayes Award (Royal Society of Sculptors) and the Unit1 Gallery | Workshop Solo Residency Award, and has been reviewed in publications including Art Review, ArtAsiaPacific, Monthly Art, Financial Times, and Elephant Magazine.