KOO JEONG A

Ideas of weightlessness are central to KOO’s practice, intimately connected to their explorations of immateriality and multidimensionality. Another sculpture, ‘DENSITY X’ (2025), is suspended in a magnetic field. It represents the latest installment in a long-running series that works to disrupt conventional notions of space and materiality using a levitating ice cube that KOO has materialized variously through drawing, sculpture and augmented reality. ‘LAVA X’ (2025), meanwhile, emits scent to immerse the viewer in a multisensory experience. Fragrance has been central to KOO’s practice since 1996, used by the artist to explore the ways in which spatial perception is influenced by olfactory experiences.

Alongside scent, KOO JEONG A’s work frequently incorporates other intangible elements such as light, temperature and sound. At the heart of KOO’s work is an interest in the invisible forces that shape reality, often bridging the terrestrial and the cosmic worlds. Light waves are bent by gravity, while plants bloom in response to light. Named after the classical planets—the Sun and Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn— the Seven Stars series embodies this entanglement. During daylight hours, these paintings appear quiet, minimalistic compositions. Darkness transforms them, revealing them to be painted using phosphorescent pigment that absorbs light over the course of the day. Glowing green stars appear across the canvases, opening a portal into a parallel dimension and forming what the artist coins as the LAND OF OUSSS, a cosmology in which animation, mathematics, and spatial imagination converge into a living monument.

_{Photo: KOO JEONG A, KANGSE Y, 2024 © KOO JEONG A}