Galeria Carles Taché is pleased to announce the opening of Uniformitarian Assumptions (and other ghosts), a solo show by artist Michael Joo (Ithaca, New York, 1966).
This exhibition is included in the Barcelona Gallery Weekend event held from Thursday September 28th until next December 2017.
Since the early 1990s, Michael Joo investigates, through a diverse variety of mediums, questions relating to the Human Being and the Natural History. The notions of identity, body, nature and territory are core questions to his work. Bold and often very in uenced by his scienti c background, Joo experiences with a wide range of mediums, materials and technologies.
He has individually shown in galleries and museums from the international scene even representing the South Korea pavilion at the 49th Venice Biennale and at the 12th Sharjah Biennial. His work joins collections such as the MOMA, Guggenheim and the Whitney (New York) ones. Also the Samsung Centre for Art and Culture (Seoul). He has won numerous awards such as the Grand Prize at the 6th Gwangju Biennale 2006.