KOO JEONG-A ::::

Sesame is an apparition, activated by the presence of the spectator. The image is revealed like a memory triggered from physical depth which then quickly vanishes. Koo Jeong-A is a Korean artist who moved to Paris in 1991 where her micro-interventions often consist in collecting poor and insignificant materials: dust, bits of gypsum board, small objects, etc. They are ephemeral, provisional, fragile, furtive, discreet, or even invisible.

Koo Jeong-A’s installations also reveal a conception of space in which, contrary to appearances, nothing is left to chance. The almost-nothing is organized with an obsessive precision that is disorienting for those who usually disallow attention to detail on so minute a scale. This obsession with order may hide a fear of collapse, a desire to push away a threatening chaos, but Koo Jeong-A is singular in that she organizes what is destroyed, abandoned, or hidden.