The Austrian-Korean artist Kaja Clara Joo (born 1991 in Vienna) is showing her new, expansive installation LURKER. The title is borrowed from net jargon and refers to people who read along to discussions in internet forums or chats but do not actively participate in them.
LURKER is made up of technically very differently executed works that all refer to each other in terms of content. The narrative material that the artist weaves could not be denser: sculpture, experimental photography and video combine to form an installative structure that revolves around the Korean mythical figure of Bulgasari.
The examination of the Bulgasari figure brings an old story into the present and emphasises its topicality by addressing feelings of unease and secrecy, but also trust, courage and (in)visibility.
Dr. Lisa Ortner-Kreil
(Excerpts from the exhibition text)
Location
Smolka Contemporary
Lobkowitzplatz 3, 1010 Vienna
Opening hours
Tuesday to Friday 13 – 18 h
Saturday 11 – 14 h
SMOLKA CONTEMPORARY
The gallery Smolka Contemporary, founded in 2013, is located in the first district of Vienna in the immediate vicinity of the State Opera, the Albertina and the Dorotheum auction house – thus in the heart of the cultural life of the capital of Austria.
Smolka Contemporary sees itself as a gallery that wants to guarantee maximum national and international visibility through intensive collaboration with a limited number of artists – the privileged location in the 1st district of Vienna offers an excellent opportunity for this. By focusing on an aesthetics anchored in a specific art-historical epoch, the programme strives for coherence and, by working with young artists, at the same time wants to demonstrate how the urgencies of the 1980s continue to have an impact in a contemporary world that has been completely changed by media technology. You could also say: back to the future.
Kaja Clara Joo: LURKER
20 Oct 2023 - 25 Nov 2023
SMOLKA CONTEMPORARY
Lobkowitzplatz 3, 1010 Wien, Österreich
