My contribution to the exhibition Lucius Burckhardt and Cedric Price – A Stroll Through a Fun Palace, at the Swiss Pavilion, Venice is a new piece called Cedric & FRAND (2014). It continues my series of work using magnets as a material, which includes the artworks Cedric (2003, Tate Collection) and Why do you do what you do (2014, 39 ring magnets – pictured).
Two encounters inspired my interest in magnetic fields”1: Firstly I met Doctor Koo Bon Sea in Korea who uses magnets to cure sicknesses, and then in London, Cedric Price, who considered that magnetic fields could convey simultaneous synergy in the city.
Cedric & FRAND (2014)
KOO JEONG A works mainly on the invention of spaces. Her work includes architectural elements, draw- ings, fictions, poetries, publications, installations, sculptures, interventions in urban spaces, films, audio works, and architecture projects. The major intention of her interventions is to put the soul in that space. Koo’s most recent project is OTRO (2011) a skatepark pavilion in collaboration with L’Escaut Architectures, which is the first of many to be realised in different parts of the world.