Joanna Kori

Raining Tools (2025)

Joanna Kori makes linseed-cured paper casts of contemporary objects and figures, their suspended fractured forms suggesting a future archaeology. In 2016 psychoanalyst Darian Leader predicted that increased digital interaction may alter the physiology of our hands, rendering traditional tool skills obsolete. Joanna’s Raining Tools installation reinterprets Leonardo da Vinci’s "A cloudburst of material possessions" as a meditation on this possibility. Responding to this idea, her installation presents cascading paper casts of tools across the space, lit dramatically to enhance their effect, and includes interactive elements linking viewers to animation and sound, extending reflection on changing human relationships with tools and technology.

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