“The history and culture of men have been a history of the will to conquer nature. Now various signs of that ‘history’ destroying the planet are appearing across the globe. The womb is calling them back. It asks them to return to the womb and rest for a while. This is ‘the womb of the Great Mother.’ Welcome.”
The passage is drawn from the artist’s note Song of the Uterus: As the Great Mother Sleeps and Rises by PARK Youngsook (1941–2025), a first generation woman artist who pioneered feminist photography.
PARK Youngsook elevated women, long objectified within the history of photography, into authors of their own narratives and subjects of their own voice. Her photographs feature women who break away from socially prescribed identities and reinterpret themselves on their own terms.
