MICHAEL JOO

Michael Joo’s work investigates the concepts of identity and knowledge in a hybrid contemporary world. He creates narratives that explore places, people and objects through reinterpreting perception: why do we perceive as we perceive – science and religion, nature versus human intervention, fact versus fiction, high and low culture, sex, and death. By juxtaposing humanity’s various pools of knowledge and culture Joo addresses the fluid nature of identity itself. He does so by making use of an extensive variety of medium: video, sculpture, installations out of any sort of material ranging from bamboo to human sweat and cameras, drawing and print making – it seems as if the artist permanently tries to achieve the unachievable: to make us see an object in real life that is barely conceivable as thought alone.