Maison Marie Claire Korea

Maison Marie Claire Korea · November 2023

Suri in Paris

Aiganym Gali’s painting Alua (2023), a pale abstract of orbs and a golden flower form, above a walnut sideboard in Suri Park’s Paris dining room

ALUA, 2023, 130 x 160 cm, acrylic, oil on canvas, Tengri. Light Works. Collection of Suri Park, Paris

Photograph © Jean-Pierre Vaillancourt for Maison Marie Claire Korea

Written by Kang Bora · Edited by Park Myung-ju

Maison Marie Claire Korea’s November 2023 cover story, “Suri in Paris”, visits the apartment of curator and collector Suri Park, founder of Maison Suri, in the 8th arrondissement. She runs it as a salon in the spirit of Gertrude Stein’s, where art, design and conversation share the same rooms. Among the works on her walls is Gali’s Alua (2023), from Tengri. Light Works.

In October 2023, during Paris+ par Art Basel, the apartment also hosted Abundance, Suri’s exhibition of women artists, which included Gali’s work.

The magazine describes her abstract images as “essentially connected to the spiritual energy of the steppe” (translated from the Korean).

Artist’s note

Alua (2023) is from Tengri. Light Works. Like the rest of the series, it was painted slowly, in long sessions, without a plan, and draws on Tengri, the steppe’s ancient way of seeing the world. It is good to see it in a home rather than a gallery.

— Aiganym Gali