BIO

Kathy Guo is a Chinese American artist working with sculpture, empathy, and your participation. Their practice is concerned with investigating the complexities of our human interconnectivity: In culture, family, community, self, and between one another. Kathy is dedicated to always learning, feeling, playing, and empowering.

CURRENT MOTIF

As a child of immigrants that constantly relocated, uprooted, the concept of belonging was so fleeting, yet I learned to find it within a few people that felt like home for 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.