Minumsa editor Kim Minkyoung once recalled that her father taught her, “You should be able to dance anywhere.” Yet there was also a time when a woman who sang and danced was dismissed as “crazy.” Photographer PARK Youngsook was a feminist who boldly transformed women who had been targets of ridicule into the central subjects of her series Mad Women.
Women who were labeled “mad” for failing to conform to patriarchal social norms found, before PARK Youngsook’s lens, the freedom to speak in their own voices and to dance. The exhibition Look, That Woman Sings and Dances, the first solo show held since the artist’s passing, reflects on her body of work and her contribution to the development of modern photography and feminist art.
