Milk and Honey-1, fabric, beads, cotton, 2023
A detail of ‘Milk and Honey-1’
A detail of ‘Milk and Honey-1’
Milk and Honey-2, fabric, cotton, beads, 2023
A detail of ‘Milk and Honey-2’/w=3840,quality=90,fit=scale-down)
Milk and Honey-3, fabric, cotton, beads, 340 x 180 x 420cm, 2023
Milk and Honey-3, fabric, cotton, beads, 340 x 180 x 420cm, 2023
Milk and Honey – 4, 2023, Fabric, beads, cotton, 235 x 163 x 40 cm, 2023
Milk and Honey – 4, 2023, Fabric, beads, cotton, 235 x 163 x 40 cm, 2023
A detail of ‘Milk and Honey-4’
A detail of ‘Milk and Honey-4’
Milk and Honey-6, fabric, cotton, beads, 210x240x210cm, 2023
A detail of ‘Milk and Honey-6’
A detail of ‘Milk and Honey-6’
A detail of ‘Milk and Honey-6’
A detail of ‘Milk and Honey-6’
The Great Ballroom, 2023
The Great Ballroom, 2023
a part of ‘The Great Ballroom’
The Great Ballroom, 2023
a part of ‘The Great Ballroom’
a part of ‘The Great Ballroom’
a part of ‘The Great Ballroom’
Milk and Honey-12, fabric, cotton, beads, 640x504x327cm, 2023
Milk and Honey-10, fabric, cotton, beads, 288x290x183cm, 2023
Milk and Honey-9, fabric, cotton, 330x350x30cm, 2023
a detail of ‘Milk and Honey-5’
Milk and Honey-5, Milk and Honey-4, Milk and Honey-6
Milk and Honey-5, Milk and Honey-6이 작품은 프리즈 서울 2023 아티스트 어워드 수상작입니다.
이번 신작은 불가리의 지원으로 실현되었습니다.
The installation works were created for the Frieze Artist Award Frieze, supported by Bulgari.
Woo's winning commission, titled The Great Ballroom (2023), is a large-scale installation that continues her series Milk and Honey
(2023-ongoing). It serves as a celebratory avenue for vitality and liberation. The installation's draped fabrics accentuate the flexible nature of the fabric and bring to mind the shape of women's breasts.
It is reminiscent of hanging curtains in a ballroom, or a bat spreading its wings in mid-air. Woo's installation embraces the inevitability of decay and rejects the conventional standard of beauty imposed on women by conceptualizing the process of ageing and the dynamic bodily transformation. Each fabric piece represents a different stage of a woman's body during breastfeeding - from the swelling of breasts in preparation, to the restful period when the milk subsides.
