PARK Youngsook, Look, That Woman Sings and Dances

A woman, her nails freshly painted and carefully made up, stares directly ahead, unconcerned by the chaos of housework and childcare around her. In another photograph, a woman gazes into the empty air with an unfocused look, clutching a pillow as if it were a baby. Yet another bursts into laughter as though possessed, her hanbok jacket loosened and hanging open. The gallery walls are filled with images of women whom Korean society long pointed at and tried to isolate as “mad.” These photographs belong to the late PARK Youngsook’s Mad Women series, now regarded as an iconic body of work in the history of Korean feminist art.