Koo Jeong A

Born 1967 in Seoul, Korea. Lives and works everywhere.

Since the early 1990s, Koo Jeong A has made works that are seemingly casual and commonplace, yet at the same time remarkably precise, deliberate, and considered. Their reflections on the senses and the body incorporate objects, still and moving images, audio elements, and aromas. Many of their works are conceived within site-specific environments that question the limits of fact and fiction, the imaginary and actuality of our world. Koo considers the connection of energies between a place and people, relying on chance to drive their encounters.

In realising their spaces and images, they draw from a wide spectrum of concerns which they developed over the years. Ranging from human cognition, to the philosophy of Taoism, from the science of Qi, to the interaction of natural elements such as earth, fire, metal, water, and wood. In their environments, nothing is merely ordinary; on the contrary, any material or phenomena - be it a mound of charcoal, a shaft of iron, or a glare of sunlight - is endowed with dignity and reverence and incites the surprise of a discovery. To venture near Koo's work is to travel unreservedly through a cosmos of unassuming large and small forms, mysterious dwarfed spaces, and perilous landscapes of memories.