In 2020, I began working on the Family series alongside my performance project I Am the Elephant. For this series, I’ve been developing images sourced from magazines, refining them to a near-perfect state, as if they were film negatives ready for printing.
The first major presentation of the project took place summer of 2024 at Wien Künstlerhaus, at the group exhibition Kostbar, curated by Tatjana Hardikov, where I exhibited three pieces from the series, which now includes more than 100 works. To prepare for the exhibition, I wandered through local flea markets, searching for frames that would capture and complement the spirit of the series.
I am grateful to Mark Maher for curatorial support of the project.
at the finissage with an Austrian artist Mari Otberg
International performance, visual and sound artist Josef Ka blends richly varied influences – everything from Butoh dance to cinematic theory – with her decades of nomadic world travel to create bold, highly personal site-specific art.
Josef Ka’s themes range from investigating the place of the human body in contemporary reality to exploring the inner body as a representative system of our human and post human kind.
Her artistic practice often actively invites the audience inside a sort of private reverie, making it is a deeply participatory one; she actively engages with both her audiences and with a wide diversity of other experimental artists.
In addition to her own work, Josef Ka curates a regular series of events and exhibitions at her Helsinki underground space – Sauna Gallery – and teaches classes on the theory and practice of performance art. She is also the inventor of the WORST THEATRE and her yogic training system, KA-YOGA.
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