Candice Joo creates paintings and sculptures of chains to explore notions of individuality, collectivity, and the potential powers in each. Joo’s tensely arranged yet tightly interconnected landscapes of chains are where she reimagines ideas of the empowered self and of collective power. Joo received her B.F.A. from the Parsons School of Design in New York City. Select solo exhibitions have been held at Jang Design Art Gallery and Punto Blu in Seoul. Joo’s work has been featured in group shows at Helen J. Gallery, USA and Art Fairs and collaborated with Tiffany & Co., New York/Beijing.

Human life is comprised of endless means and moments of making decisions. Our decisions are constantly influenced by conditions and circumstances that we cannot immediately witness this procedure of growth. However, like passing through a gateway of life, we are interested in the process of visualizing the emo­tions and energy that are expressed internally with the strong stimulus of change, that is, invisible and amorphous. The portrayal of metal surfaces is thus to record the moments of recalling numer­ous emotions and mental states experienced in the flow time, capturing the flow of various light on the surface. The arch-shaped structure repeatedly seen in the work acts as a symbolic form that seizes the flow of emotions. The overlapped arrangement of arches is intui­tively recognized as a landscape and as an emersion of a planned space. As such, my own experience claims independence between reality and the virtual, which is practiced like a meditation in the drawing of these everyday growths. 

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