Since the early 1990s, KOO JEONG A has been working at the crossroads of art, science and metaphysics, creating works that amplify perception and connect us to the invisible forces that inhabit reality.
Between conceptual precision and intimate sensory experience, his creations cultivate ephemerality, transformation and entropy, giving rise to environments as minimalist as they are deeply affective.
KOO JEONG A is known for her synesthetic approach and multifaceted practice, in which drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, film, sound, animation, augmented reality and architecture coexist. By integrating immaterial elements such as light, temperature variations, smells and sounds, the artist has developed a multi-sensory formal lexicon that invites us to go beyond the purely visual.
The largest exhibition devoted to KOO JEONG A in France to date, LAND OF OUSSS [KANGSE] brings together major works and previously unseen creations created between 2007 and the present day. Sculptures, olfactory installations, phosphorescent paintings and intimate ink drawings make up a journey that continues the artist’s research into movement, weightlessness, levitation and voids. “OUSSS”, a term coined by KOO JEONG A, refers to sound, substance, being or place, both physical and mental, a personal and shifting territory.
KOO JEONG A frequently creates site-specific works that combine invisible forces and natural phenomena – gravity, magnetic fields, phosphorescence – with speculative ideas, strange imaginings and intimate memories. Spread over two levels of La Tour, the exhibition includes [KANGSE SpSt] (2024), a levitating, scent-scented figure that welcomes us into the Drum at LUMA Arles, and a series of finely crafted wooden sculptures based on the logic of the Möbius strip. The installations dialogue with Frank Gehry’s monumental aesthetic and the history of Arles, creating a subtle interplay of echoes and reflections. The in situ rock sculptures [EVER] [VAST] (2025) resonate with the sinuous structure of La Tour, itself inspired by the slender boulders of the nearby Alpilles. [SEVEN STARS] (2020), a series of luminescent paintings, inevitably evokes Van Gogh’s Starry Night (1889).
Through imperceptible gestures and large-scale immersive installations in public spaces, KOO JEONG A weaves sensitive cosmologies that unsettle our habitual perceptions of time, space and materiality, opening portals to alternative dimensions. The universe of “OUSSS” sketches out an enigmatic space where telluric and cosmic materials intertwine, inviting us to rethink our relationship with the invisible elements that make up our reality.
