Ivan Ko is a London-based artist and creative practitioner whose work is shaped through experiences in contemporary art practice and curatorial work. Working primarily through sculpture and installation, his practice examines how bodies, objects, and spaces are perceived, organised, and transformed through processes of viewing, maintenance, repetition, and public encounter.
His works often unfold through unstable conditions between visibility and invisibility, preservation and disappearance, intimacy and distance, attempting to engage forms of perception that resist fixed interpretation or complete explanation. Within his practice, objects gradually detach from narrative, yet never fully leave reality. The works often remain in a state that has not been fully defined.
Questioning forms a central structure within Ko’s practice. Works frequently emerge through open-ended prompts or titles that function less as conclusions than as conceptual thresholds into the work itself. These questions invite viewers to pause, sense, and renegotiate their relationship to what is revealed, withheld, or left unresolved.
He previously co-founded THE SHOPHOUSE and UNVEIL, and has participated in the development and curation of multiple cross-disciplinary contemporary art projects.
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