무: 無: Nothing Seunghwui Koo

Drawing from meditative experiences in nature, Koo creates meticulous resin, acrylic, plaster, clay, and mixed media works inspired by the daily happenings and intricate moments of her life in New York City. Her work is a commentary on the lives of her fellow New Yorkers, as she has witnessed them. Koo was born in South Korea, where she first experimented with combining the forms of the pig’s head and the human body. The significance of the pig’s head in Koo’s work plays on differing symbolic meanings in Eastern and Western cultures. Good fortune (Eastern) and greed (Western)—two very different connotations of the pig—are prominent themes, in tension with the textural and organic qualities of the pieces on view.