Korean Artists Today features contemporary artists poised for global recognition, including Sun Woo. Born in Seoul and raised in Canada, her experiences of cultural displacement influence her art. After studying fine art at Columbia University, she returned to Seoul, where she reflects on her youth marked by digital communication, exploring dislocation through multimedia works. Her art combines bodily elements with mechanical devices, addressing themes such as female exploitation and fragmentation, emphasizing the contrasts of belonging and identity in a modern context.
Sun Woo reflects that her ongoing sensation of living in transit, straddling two cultures amidst a rapidly changing technological landscape, sparked her interest in in-betweenness.
Her early memories of displacement and relationship with technology aren't just metaphors, but lived realities that inform her artistic practice, influencing her representations of fragmentation.
Sun's artwork often explores themes of female exploitation and labor, as seen in her painting Weaver's Room, where biological elements merge with mechanical devices.
Even as digital spaces felt more homely than her physical surroundings, they never fulfilled her urge to belong.
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