Soo-Joo Yoo: So this is fxxking, beautiful our future..?

2 August – 13 September 2008

Soo-Joo Yoo‘s work negotiates tension and chaos through the use of tangible lines and colour, space and lighting.

Born in Korea, Yoo currently works and resides in Sydney. The artist works mainly with installation, using everyday materials which attract her emotionally.

So this is fxxking, beautiful our future..? will consist of an installation located on the Ground Floor of 4A. Visible 24-hours a day to 4A passersby, the installation will fill the gallery with the reflective light and colours which bounce off industrial materials such as vinyl, foil, plastic tubes, wire, aluminium pipes and rubber mats. The work exploits sensations of rapid movement and spatial confusion to present an optical dance of chaotic nature in contemporary life.

Yoo aims to confront viewers with the unpredictable, fragile reality of life, and questions of the unknown source of power, force and energy, inherent in every-day life. The installation references the structure and system of the urban and natural environments as well as human sensations of hope and desire.

Soo-Joo Yoo completed her Masters of Visual Art at the Victorian College for the Arts in 2006. Yoo had her first solo exhibitions in 2007 at West Space Gallery and Flinders Gallery and was recently shown at Linden Gallery and the Adelaide Fringe Festival where her exhibition was awarded Most Excellent Exhibition. She also won the 2007 The Age Melbourne Fringe Festival Visual Art Award, 2006 Flinders Lane Gallery Award and the 2001 Nokia Art Award.