Ku's Disturbing Tableaux Evoke Henry Darger's Child Worlds
Ku creates unsettling tableaux featuring children that undermine confidence in reality, akin to Henry Darger's imagined worlds. Her works meditate on inexplicable transgressions emerging from nowhere.
Key facts
- Ku's work is compared to Henry Darger
- Her tableaux feature children
- The pieces undermine confidence in the world
- The works are described as disturbing
- They meditate on transgressions that make no sense
- The transgressions seem to come out of nowhere
Entities
Artists
- Henry Darger
- Ku
Institutions
- Kips Gallery