Koo Jeong A

• OLO
  2021, Augmented Reality

I imagined OLO in Augument Reality while I visited the region of the Spanish village of Horta de Sant Joan, the place which is said to have inspired Pablo Picasso’s invention of Cubism, to present the idea of the subterranean residency, a cube of 240 m3 , spacious space in the city where we can seat to think, the residency by free from the distraction, The cultural hub + tool .

Born in Seoul, I have a particularly personal, longstanding relationship with the city and the complexity of its architectural outline. I have been living abroad for the last thirty years and have come to see the altering cityscape through a familiar and yet distant perspective through the regular visits to the cities like Seoul.

The cube shape I conceived when I visited Seoul I came to think about possible solutions for the scarcity of space available for people to work freely, a place for innovators – I began to imagine OLO.

Then, OLO started to design for the Seoul Architecture and Urbanism Biennale that will provide; a residency space model to work and reside in the city centre without having to forgo the quiet and spaciousness, remote area. OLO, is derived from solo, describing the single person use of it.

I appreciates both the need for a place to think and the limited affordability of such a place in a city rentable both short and long term.

OLO is particularly relevant to the Biennale’s Crossroads themes which is resilient city. Born out of the experience of the pandemic, OLO is a close study of the city and a solution conceived of in the midst of the crisis.

• Prerequisite 7 Series
  2019, Augmented Reality

  abstruse

  complete answer

  density

  feasibility

  implusion

  Ki In Sang Bong (eccentricities reunion)

  one should stay away from anything worldly

rerequisites 7, Koo Jeong A’s first AR project, includes five animated drawings that can be placed on the wall, from a curious crouching frog to a flying woman, whose dress billows in the wind, in addition to the floating, translucent ice cube, density. 

Each individual work started with pen drawings taken from her artist’s book Nomos Alpha (2018). Working with Acute Art, Jeong A’s sketch of density was rendered in 3D, which, using environmental mapping, reflects and refracts the surroundings of wherever it is placed: from a bustling city to the quiet depths of a garden. 

Koo Jeong A’s ephemeral works usually highlight seemingly unimportant everyday items, which often border on the invisible. Her precise drawings explore the poetics of everyday life in humorous ways and within the medium of AR they come alive. 

In 2019, density was extensively exhibited with institutions across the globe, including: the Fondation Beyeler during Art Basel 2019, Frieze Sculpture 2019 in Regent’s Park, the Julia Stoschek Collection in Berlin and SKATE at Somerset House among others. 

Viewers are now able to place and interact with these AR works via the free Acute Art app.