Jo Jae (B. 1990) explores the sensations manifested through collecting urban landscapes, reconstructing them into images. Moving beyond previous works that delved into these sensations, she now focuses on the process of mutual emulation between reality and the digital world, as boundaries blur and extend. Her artworks visualize a continuous process of image rebirth, akin to the data expansion process, where elements augment the original fragmented image. Through this process of self-reference, the digital fragments acquire physicality, enabling the intangible digital realm, constructed through imitation of reality, to surpass reality itself. This brings forth moments when the digital realm transcends points previously deemed impossible within reality, leading to a reversal of status, which in turn highlights its transient nature, pinpointing instances where topology overturns, repeatedly occurring between the physical and digital realms.

Since graduating from Sungkyunkwan University in 2014, Jo Jae has continued her studies at the Royal College of Art in London and has since participated in a variety of exhibitions. In 2016, she won the Young Talent Contemporary Prize awarded by the Ingram Collection in the UK, the Hopper Prize in the United States in 2019, and also participated in the Radical Residency ll at London’s Unit 1 Gallery in 2018. In Korea, she has consistently held various group shows and solo shows since 2018 and is currently working as an instructor in the Department of Art at Sungkyunkwan University's College of Arts.