In a variety of media—drawings, sculptures, installations, and works done directly in nature, Flora Kao examines the ways memory becomes entangled in history. Art critic Shana Nys Dambrot spoke with Kao about the ways in which data, ritual, storytelling, resilience, and transcendence mix to reveal how our weak attempts at controlling the forces of nature and the flow of destiny can reveal deeper poetic and somatic insights into the unseen patterns we sense at play behind it all. Dambrot asked Kao for her “short answer to people who ask what your work is about,” and the artist replied that she investigates “the poetics of human relationship with the environment. I explore the psychological potential of constructed space.”
Kao’s visual matrices have varied inspirations, such as street grids—”referencing the blueprint as a locus of dreams and the city as a web of overlapping paths”—and a giant origami lotus that the artist sees as a response to her grandparents’ deaths during the pandemic and Buddhist mourning rites. ♦
Click here for more of Dambrot’s interview and installation shots. —VV editors
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