부산대학교 도서관

(b Seoul, Mar 13, 1967). Korean multimedia artist active in Europe and the USA. Koo studied Western painting at Hongik University, Seoul (1985–1990), and multimedia art at the Ecole National Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris (1991–1997). While Koo’s drawings and photographs capture inconspicuous details of her daily life and surroundings, her installations incorporate such mundane objects as coins, rubber bands, sugar cubes, empty bottles, washing sponges, and Walt Disney cartoon characters. Her interest in the fragments of everyday life not only reflects a sustained cultural interest in the everyday (le quotidien) in France, but it is also in tune with many Korean artists of her generation, who rose to significance in the Korean art world in the late 1990s, turning to small items of daily use rather than pursuing excessive visibility or the monumentality evident in the works of their predecessors. More often than not, nestled down at insignificant corners of an exhibition space, Koo’s small-scale installations evade a viewer’s eyes at first glance. Sometimes an installation is even invisible, as in one of her two installations for the ...