A solo exhibition of PARK Youngsook, who left a significant mark on the development of Korean contemporary photography and feminist art, Look, That Woman Sings and Dances, is on view at Arario Gallery Seoul. This exhibition, the first to be held since the artist’s passing, revisits the contradictions of the male centered society that she explored and the subjectivity of women suppressed within it, through works spanning more than 40 years.
In PARK Youngsook’s photographs, women at the center of the frame cast off prescribed identities. Emotions once called madness are transformed into energies of resistance and creation, and ultimately they are reborn as authors of their own narratives and subjects of their own voice. As in the poem gifted to the artist by poet Kim Hyesoon, from which the exhibition title is drawn, women who sing and dance, reborn on their own terms, come together to overturn the power of the gaze.
