This collaboration between Dohyun Baek and Luigi Coppola brings together art, poetry, music, and performance in a multidisciplinary dialogue: titular piece ‘Cuckoo Has Two Mother’. Through surreal narratives, playful absurdity, and profound reflections on human vulnerability, the show explores the thresholds we encounter: between imagination and reality, progress and imperfection, utility and waste, self and other.
Baek’s visually arresting paintings, installations, and sculptural interventions meet Coppola’s visceral poems and dynamic live and multimedia performances. The collaboration reimagines stories and archetypes: cuckoos with too many mothers; Don Quixote astride a self-made stool; a gate that opens endlessly; they ask audiences to step into spaces where meaning is fluid, expansive and haunting.
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The project is part of the subthemes Hybrid Selves – Gender, Identity, and Posthuman Intimacies, Unruly Forms – Experiments in the Poetic Wild.
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Dohyun Baek is a multidisciplinary contemporary artist working across painting, installation, sculpture, and performance. His work has been exhibited at institutions and venues including the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, New Art Exchange in Nottingham, Unit 1 Gallery in London, and Salon De Art in Seoul.
He has been selected for major open calls and awards such as the John Moores Painting Prize (2020), the Chaiya Art Awards (2023), and NAE Open (2025).
Luigi Coppola is a poet, performer, and musician whose practice moves between spoken word, live music, and ritualised performance. His work has been featured at venues and festivals including Glastonbury Festival, Tate Modern, Greenwich Theatre, Koestler Arts, Cutty Sark, and the Southbank Centre’s New Poets Collective.
He is a Poetry Archive Worldview winner, has been shortlisted for Bridport, longlisted for Ledbury and the National Poetry Competition, and is a champion of both the Lost Souls and Farrago Slams. As a musician, he performs under the name The Only Emperor. His debut poetry collection is published by Broken Sleep Books.
