radiant 2020

For the first exhibition of the Korean artist Koo Jeong A in Madrid, titled radiant 2020, she will be presenting Seven Stars, a series of works on canvas and on paper that play with the vanishing and drive our awareness to the contemplation of a starry sky. Many of her works are conceived within site-specific environments that question the limits of fact and fiction, the imaginary and the real. An encounter place where the energies between a place, people and objects connect. 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, are the main subjects she explores. Every element of her environments has a major role: be it a shaft of iron or a glare of sunlight. ‘To venture near Koo’s work is to travel unreservedly through a cosmos of unassuming forms, dwarfed spaces and perilous landscapes of memories’