STATEMENT OF WORK

Mo is an artist, writer, and mother. Her intermedia practice contains drawings, sculpture, poetic text, html webpages and textiles. As within hypnagogic states, object, action, sensation, and language interchange freely in her work. Mo's writing takes multiple forms amidst my art practice, both supplementing and adjacent to the visual work. Much of what Mo does values the marginal and is less conventionally legible, yet registers personal and cultural realities. Her visual work is born in playful bursts. Bright colors are utilized and the work may appear simultaneously child-like yet cerebral.  Colored pencils, oil pastels, sand, egg shells/cartons, collected items, and detritus found incidentally constitute her work. Mo values resourcefulness as well as the specific charge of materials. Researcher Meredith Whittaker stated, “her work defies a contemporary epistemology that sees everything as flat, governable data. Her voice, body, and work reject this bloodless vision of the world, not merely by negation or affirmation, but by observing the constitutive intersubjectivity that animates life and confounds categorical systems.”

Multiple relatives’ history within the Holocaust has a profound impact on herself and her work, cementing her understanding of art as a tool for fantasy, healing, and empowerment. MoMA curator Sophie Cavoulacos has said that her work “asserts personhood over institutional structures of the art world...[and] urgently gestures to more compassionate, speculative understandings of body and being.”