A Blu-tack photo 白寶貼照片

Ko Sin Tung

BornNationalityBased In
1987N/AN/A
Biography

In recent years, Ko Sin Tung has been creating project-based, site- specific artworks and exhibitions in series, systematically dealing with social, architectural and quotidian themes. From a post-conceptual, post- minimal and seemingly detached perspective, Ko represents via installation, sculpture, painting, photography and video the process and means through which the contemporary society disciplines human bodies, critiquing the veiled, concealed and manipulated conditions of reality. Emphasising the internal dynamics in dichotomies — construction– destruction, development–ruination, exteriority–interiority — Ko’s artistic practice balances borderline imagery that appears ambiguous, and political discourses that are lucid and polemical. In her early practice, Ko Sin Tung investigates the impact of things through a myriad of mediums and materials, the psychological influences private objects continuously project, and the non-utilitarian functions they have been personally channelled to fulfil. She observes the city’s inhabitants and their close-quarters, slowly questioning the ways in which their personal objects reflect life, revealing the existentialist abyss between the real and the simulacrum opened by bad images. ...

Selected Artworks
The sun is not here (3) 太陽不在這裏 (3)
Ko Sin Tung
The sun is not here (3) 太陽不在這裏 (3), 2015
114 x 88cm
Express 快車
Ko Sin Tung
Express 快車, 2015
84 x 79cm
A Blu-tack photo 白寶貼照片
Ko Sin Tung
A Blu-tack photo 白寶貼照片, 2019
28.5 x 21.2cm
Awards
Huayu Youth Award (Art Sanya)2016
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