WOO KUKWON

One day, Woojoo’s quiet fascination with a unicorn opened a new perceptual doorway for the artist. In her gaze, Woo encountered a world of intuition and longing that resists the confines of language—a realm that lies beyond reason. From this moment, a central question emerged: how might we sense and experience the world not through logic, but through feeling?

The exhibition unfolds across four conceptual axes.The first engages with the medieval tapestry The Lady and the Unicorn, reinterpreted through six contemporary paintings that explore the interplay between sensory symbolism and interior emotion.

The second axis, inspired by The Hunt of the Unicorn, presents the unicorn as a figure suspended between innocence and desire. In Woo’s hands, the mythical creature sheds its symbolic absolutism to become a gentle, hesitant, and subtly humorous reflection of human vulnerability.

The third, ‘Rye Field Series’, draws from literary figures such as Hemingway, Cervantes, Salinger, and Collodi. Rather than illustrating specific narratives, Woo translates their emotional undercurrents into visual form. A recurring girl and a schnauzer serve as intuitive guides, leading viewers through a landscape of memory and feeling.

Finally, the exhibition invites viewers to inhabit a cosmos that is both deeply personal and expansively universal—one that reflects the artist’s search for meaning through paint, story, and the quiet revelations of everyday life.