Jo Sook Jin, Daesan Art Museum
Birth
1960, Gwangju
Genre
Sculpture, Installation, Photography
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Sook Jin, Jo's Solo Exhibition - Work in Space
Over the past 25 years, Jo Sook Jin has produced sculpture, drawings, photos, performances, installations and public art that reveal abiding, interconnected thematic concerns space and form, destruction and rebirth, material and spiritual, life and death. Whatever the medium, Jo’s works evoke a spiritual, meditative and contemplative response in the viewer’s experience of them.Her sculptures, the most prominent of her media, depend upon found wooden materials. She has discovered in these 'waste products' numerous possibilities. Assembled in eloquent constructions,full of melancholy serenity and the occult in action, she has developed her own esthetic depth. The art critic Donald Kuspit writes: “Jo has taken profane materials and created a sacred art, conveying a sense indeed, affording an experience of the numinous...” By combining presence and absence, Sook Jin Jo's on-line exhibition, 'Work in Space', explores the relationship between works and space and engages us to experience the energy of the spiritual.