View of the exhibition "Please Throw Me Back in the Ocean" at Seoul Dosan park SEOUL (South Korea), 2023. Photo: Andy H. Jung. Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin.Perrotin Seoul presents “Please Throw Me Back In The Ocean” the first solo exhibition of Kara Joslyn (b. 1983) in Korea, on view through April 28. This exhibition will feature ten new paintings of varying sizes that are extremely precise and surprisingly optical illusions.
The exhibition is a self-reflection on the artist’s cultural experiences in his native California and an exploration of collective desires and memories influenced by cultural notions of consumerism and Americana as a source of social breakdown today.
The works are grayscale and starkly contrasting and dominated by geometric and angular paper sculptures of hooks, anchors, masks, dolls, and shells. They are based on images from the artist’s collection of papercraft books, and many of the compositions are intuitive.
Kara Jocelyn is a Los Angeles-based artist whose three-dimensional paintings explore themes of storytelling and illusion. The spaces created by the light in her work are dreamy and unstable, combining fantasy and reality, and form part of her own compelling aesthetic.
