L Koo

BFA, 2015, Cornish College of Arts, Seattle; MFA, 2019, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Solo exhibitions: Alumni Gallery at Cornish College; New Media Gallery at Jack Straw Cultural Center (Seattle); Glass Box Gallery (Seattle). Selected group exhibitions: The Chicago Cluster Project; Moving Image 00:06 Festival (Chicago); 062 Gallery (Chicago); Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Chicago); Out of Sight 2016 (Seattle).

I am interested in representations of continuously shifting space through its relationship to time. All of the small things—a string of words, a drift of light, a snapshot taken on a phone—capture what can feel like the most important thing in the world. Sometimes it’s just a second before it fades into obscurity, other times it iterates itself repeatedly into something else. This movement of space acts as a contemporaneous acknowledgement of being within it, as it simultaneously builds itself from both the ‘now’ and ‘previously’ existing memories, creating an ever shifting perception that can appear as indecision or extremes of indirection. Is it inevitable that words, images, objects, movements, should fail in capturing our relationship to spaces?


In my practice, I often incorporate elements of time based media such as sound, video, or projections alongside sculptural or photographic pieces. The idea of light plays an important role, standing for specific instances of place, time, memory, and meaning. Explorations of space often take the form of site specific installations which respond to the physical venue in which it is built, while simultaneously seeking to build out and manifest an internal, emotional space.