Corine Ko, painter and photographer

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In the artistic production of Corine ko  photography and painting are indissolubly linked: it is with the painter's gaze that she reworks her photos, integrating heterogeneous elements that make them real digital collages; conversely, the photograph literally embeds itself in the canvas, giving it a soul and a body that the paint comes to dress in color.

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Sometimes fragments of torn paper are added to it – lace paper or printed paper – which give it relief and enliven the surface with brightly colored spots, another dressing for these silhouettes without real contour: it is the color that draws the shapes and gives them life, free to escape, to spread, seeming to dissolve the temporarily established form.

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And this is what strikes first and foremost in Ko's painting: this freedom of color which willingly exceeds and goes beyond contours, and which reigns supreme in a universe without spatial or temporal reference.

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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: "to connect", to keep the link, not to lose the thread, it is perhaps one of the keys to this enigmatic work in many respects...

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This thread that runs from one painting to another, a haunting leitmotif, is undoubtedly much more than a simple accessory: thread of life with which the characters play, common thread that makes the link between the canvases, it innervates the painting and crosses the image by giving it a meaning, a polarity.

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From one work to another, we see a sensual and poetic feminine universe taking shape, full of sweetness, grace and mystery.

Originally from the Paris region, Corine Ko has lived and painted in Marseille since 1998. She works in a beautiful studio, where she exhibits her paintings and photographs.

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text by brigitte mezzradi

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Corine Ko Paintings and fine art photography

Corine Ko's artistic process fuses photography and painting. Reworking her photos with the eye of a painter, she integrates heterogeneous elements to generate original digital collages.

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At the same time, photography is literally embedded in her canvases, lending the
work a soul and substance that is adorned by the colors of the painting. She also
sometimes uses shreds of torn paper – either lace or printed paper – which add relief to the work and animate the surface with splashes of bright color, embellishing silhouettes that do not have a clear outline; instead, it is the color that defines the shapes and gives them life, liberating them to escape and spread, apparently dissolving the provisional form.

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It is this exuberance that is initially striking in Corine Ko’s work, the willful freedom with which color overflows and surpasses contour, and reigns supreme in a universe without spatial or temporal points of reference.

In this depthless space where the subjects sometimes seem to be caught in suspension or equilibrium, the thread is the only point of contact with the world and between beings.

Being connected, maintaining a link, not losing the thread, is perhaps one of the keys to understanding this otherwise enigmatic work.

The thread that wanders from one painting to another as an obsessive leitmotif is doubtless much more than an incidental accessory: it is at once the thread of life with which the subjects are playing and the common thread that links the various pictures, it innervates the painting and traverses the image, giving it direction, meaning, and polarity.

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From one work to the next, a sensual and poetic feminine
universe is emerging, filled with softness, grace and mystery.

Originally from the Paris area, Corine Ko has lived and painted in Marseille since 1998.
She works in a beautiful studio where her paintings and photographs are exhibited to the public.

Brigitte Mezzadri
(English translation by Chantal Ronday)