Jo Coupe
The Late Shows
Saturday 16th May 2009
7pm – 11pm
For The Late Shows Workplace Gallery presents a unique interactive installation by Jo Coupe.
The recent work of Jo Coupe exploits the aesthetics and methodologies of Science by adapting simple experiments and subverting half-understood scientific ideas, or by re-appropriating iconic imagery for its metaphorical significance. In her work, the school science experiment, alchemy and a fascination with decay unite, revealing the world as a mysteriously rational place.
Throughout The Late Shows evening Coupe will cook a selection of mushrooms that she is currently cultivating in the lead up to her solo exhibition Fade Away and Radiate here at Workplace Gallery opening on 28th May. Coupe has been developing artworks that incorporate mushrooms and funghi for a number of years. This event unifies key conceptual elements of Coupe’s practice including her fascination with unusual material not normally associated with Art, and her ability to give significance to the natural and synthetic transformative processes that she finds in the world around us.
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