JIAO GUO
THE GRASS IS STALKING YOU
29.10.-16.11.2025.
KARAS GALLERY

On Wednesday, 29th of October Jiao Guo opens her solo exhibition entitled The Grass is Stalking You at 7 pm in Karas Gallery (Ulica kralja Zvonimira 58).

In her foreword, Petra Galović emphasizes:
“The intermedial installation titled The Grass Is Stalking You by the artist Jiao Guo is a kind of case study of such an experiment in re-imagining and remapping the meaning of a non-human entity – ordinary grass. (…)
By dissecting the models of existing and possible perceptions of grass in a branched intermedial installation, Guo takes the position of a subtle storyteller who poses a series of questions to the viewer and sets out a spectrum of possibilities of what grass is and what it could be. By juxtaposing different media – from original and modified photographs, collages, objects found in nature, wood engravings, her own poems and those of canonical authors, printouts from web pages to an interactive projection – Guo questions our perception of such concepts as the natural and artificial, analogue and digital, organic and geometric structures, as well as our need to inscribe certain meanings into them and occasionally obscure their boundaries.

Preface

Biography:
Jiao Guo (Shenyang, 1987) is an intermedial artist based in Zagreb. She currently focuses on materiality, the ways in which narratives about nature are constructed, the overlaps between geology, ecology and contemporary life, and how bodily experience intertwines with technology and non-human entities. Her practice is often process-oriented, and she creates assemblages using materials gathered both from nature and from everyday environments – often recycling objects that have lost their original function.

The exhibition will be open during the period from 29.10. to 16.11.2025.
Working hours of Karas Gallery
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 4pm – 8pm
Tuesday, Saturday 10am – 1pm
On Sundays and Mondays closed.
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http://karasarthub.eu
Organizer: HDLU
With the support of: Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, City of Zagreb