The first monograph of the artist Christa Joo Hyun D'Angelo, Fatal Attraction covers over a decade of work spanning collage, video, installation, and sculpture.
Drawing on camp horror and pop fiction, D'Angelo's work stems from bloodthirsty vampires, bad romance, South Korean cinema classics, and the Hollywood blockbuster
Terminator 2. Through imagery that is equally haunting and seductive, D'Angelo's works stage a frontal assault on conventional thinking, to reveal subconscious levels of lust, fetishism, and fear. Included alongside video stills and alluring installation shots are sketches, notes, and scripts that showcase the unruly emotional economy behind intimate topics like HIV, violence, and shame.
With essays by
Travis Jeppesen and Kathy-Ann Tan as well as a conversation between the artist and Karina Griffith,
Fatal Attraction is an audacious discussion about reimagining belonging, outlaw desire, and undying love.
Christa Joo Hyun D'Angelo (born 1983 in Busan, South Korea) is an American artist based in Berlin. She studied under
T. J. Demos at The Maryland Institute College of Art and later The Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow Poland.
The core of D'Angelo's work confronts fear, vulnerability and what is thus invisible through video, neon, installation, and sculpture. Drawing on personal narratives, experience, and memory, she navigates lewd behaviors and precarious conditions and attempts to redefine what is normal while embracing difference as a source of inspiration and empowerment in order to discover new means of acceptance and ultimately, healing.
