KOO JEONG A
OTRO

VASSIVIÈRE ISLAND, FRANCE
APRIL 2008 – JULY 2012

“If you are curious, you expand your ideas into different areas. You meet writers, architects, and designers. You are forced to learn how to speak to young skaters." – Koo Jeong A
OTRO is the first in a series of fully functioning glow-in-the-dark skateparks created by Koo Jeong A. The 2,300-square-foot (212-square-meters) concrete sculpture, produced in collaboration with Belgian architectural firm L’escaut, is composed of a set of bowls connected by a tunnel and a cradle. A man-made dreamscape amid the natural surroundings, the artwork is intended to be used, to offer an extraordinary sensorial experience to skaters and spectators alike.

© François Lichtlé for L'Escaut Architectures

FEATURED ARTIST

KOO JEONG A

Koo Jeong A (b. 1967 in Seoul, South Korea) lives and works everywhere.

The work of Koo Jeong A incorporates objects with the capacity for transformation, still and moving images along with sound and scent. These disparate mediums are combined with elements such as wind, gravity, and site-specific reconfigurations and interventions into architectural space. Often using the commonplace matter to conjure alternative realities, Koo Jeong A traces a certain poetic within the nature of forms that permeate the universe. What underpins her transient approach to making is an interest in the minute details of our earthly environments and the...