스킵네비게이션

Born 1974 in Seoul, South Korea

Lives in Seoul

KOO Donghee, C6H2N2O5, 2020, Mixed media installation, variable dimensions

KOO Donghee presents a way to introduce unfamiliarity in the way we view everyday life. She attempts to subvert the familiar reality by inserting coincidental situations into the quotidian, and explores the possibilities of multilayered interpretations of daily life and also her works by applying mechanisms that overturns an ordinary experience. In particular, KOO does not strive to deliver precise explanations however presents a generally ambiguous situation to allow the audience to seek their own perspectives for interpretation of the work through via implicit visual cues.

KOO uses various forms of media including television and internet to collect information on the events happening around her. During her research, she collects anomalies of such events and modifies the images by distorting, downscaling, enlarging, or combining them with other phenomena. Such are images of quotidian events which are ordinary or uncertain, paradoxical or helpless situations and events. Using the images as a reference, she creates video, sculpture and installations. KOO especially focuses on recognizing and facilitating the changes necessitated by physical limitations during production or installation, and takes them into her practice. Adding impromptu ideas along the way, the outcome is a deviation from initial plan, which is ambiguous, spontaneous and offers unexpected sensual experience.