Corine Ko

Corine Ko is a painter and photographer. In the artistic production of Corine Ko & nbsp; photography and painting are indissolubly linked: it is with the painter that she reworks her photos, integrating heterogeneous elements that make them real digital collages; Conversely, photography is embedded in the literal sense in the canvas, giving it a soul and a body that the painting comes to dress in colors. Sometimes there are fragments of torn paper - lace paper or printed paper - which give relief and animate the surface of strongly colorful spots, another dressing of these silhouettes without real outline: it is the color that draws the forms and gives them life, free to escape, to spread, seem to dissolve the form temporarily established. And this is what strikes first in Ko's painting: this freedom of color which exceeds and readily goes beyond contours, and which reigns supreme in a universe without spatial or temporal benchmark. In this space Without depth where the characters sometimes seem in suspension or in balance, the thread is the only point of contact with the world and between beings: "connect", keep the link, do not lose the wire, it may be One of the keys to this work in many enigmatic respects ... This thread runs from one painting to another, haunting leitmotif, is much more likely than a simple accessory: thread of life with which Play the characters, common thread that makes the link between the fabrics, he innervates the painting and crosses the image by giving it meaning, a polarity. From one work to another, we see a sensual female universe emerge and poetic, full of sweetness, grace and mystery. Originary in the Paris region, Corine Ko has lived and painted in Marseille since 1998. She has been working in a beautiful workshop, where she exhibits her paintings and photographs.