Kathy Guo

BIO

Kathy Guo is a Chinese and American artist who is always observing their surroundings, noticing the small, absurd, intimate, or simply awe-inspiring gestures that naturally occur around us or are generated through our interactions with one another. They work sculpturally, with bodily movement, with found objects, with sound, with language, with people, and often doodling on a piece of paper. They seek to illuminate the subtle yet profound parts of our existence that might make living feel worth it.

CURRENT MOTIF

As a child of immigrants who constantly relocated and uprooted, the concept of belonging was fleeting, yet I learned to find it within a few people who felt like home to me. As I yearn for community, I question the nuanced and tender complexities of our human connections.

Through interactive playscapes, I invite you to experience the quality of our words, our touch. By using vivid colors, wooden blocks, tactile soft forms, and structures similar to those of a playground, we revisit a joyful state where our emotions are most authentic. Our return to play is perhaps also a return to when we first learned how to navigate collaboration and compromise.

How might deep listening, embodying empathy, and showing your honesty open a pathway for us to remember our togetherness? Can an intimate experience rupture today’s antipathies and return us to compassion? Time after time, it has been shown that our interpersonal bonds have a profound ability to heal our traumas. My work endeavors to be a reminder of the undeniable certainty that we are deeply affected by each other.