, 2000, installation

Since the beginning of the 1990s Koo Jeong-a has been discreetly making slight, subtle arrangements, small interventions on the borders of the visible and the invisible. Her work evokes a certain vulnerability in the spectator, through a slight trembling of perception vis-a-vis the chosen space. She intervenes in already existing spaces and adjusts the world of mass-produced objects with an extremely delicate touch. The artist states: "My relationship towards art is something very intimate, that I don't want to share with any other person: for this reason I have become an artist. Sometimes after having created a piece in the studio, it is very painful to exhibit it. It stops being mine." Koo Jeong-a started out working in her studio and in private flats, where she organized furtive modifications of place, laying out mothballs in a kitchen or putting a phosphorescent tab in a cupboard. Quietude and disquiet mix in this practice, which progressively takes over the frontiers between private and public space. Koo Jeong-a oscillates between the tradition of aestheticizing found objects and the creation of informal arrangements. Her works resonate with the keen and patient focus she brings to her art throught idiosyncratic and highly effective environments.