G Gallery is pleased to present South Korean artist Woo Hannah's latest collection of fabric sculptures and installations at Frieze No. 9 Cork Street. Titled Appearances, the exhibition runs from 9 to 25 March and features works created between 2020 and 2023. It explores femininity and challenges conventional ways of objectifying and dissecting certain subjects. This marks Woo's first solo exhibition outside of South Korea.

Represented by G Gallery in Seoul, South Korea, Woo is known for using fabric to create fantastical and mythical worlds in visual forms such as drawing, sculpture, and installation. Her use of fabric, a material conventionally associated with femininity and manual labor, subverts the traditional grandeur of sculpture and offers a new perspective on the medium: freedom and flexibility. Fabric cannot be completely broken or destroyed, and if damaged, it can be repaired. Her subversive attitude towards the masculinity represented by sculptures is particularly evident in the way her installations suspend the fabric in midair, allowing it to sag. The fabric, the sculpture, is unable to resist the effects of gravity and dangles helplessly instead, as if it has been hanged.

On the opening day of the exhibition, Woo will be joined by Chus Martinez, the director of the Art Institute at the FHNW Academy of Art and Design in Basel, for a conversation about the exhibition and key themes in the artist's practice at 4 p.m.

Press release courtesy G Gallery.