July 14 - September 1, 2023
From Inman Gallery:
“Inman Gallery is pleased to present JooYoung Choi: Discovering Truth Will Make Me Free, on view July 15 – September 1, 2023. Join us for an opening reception, Friday, July 14 from 5–7pm. This will be the artist’s first exhibition at the gallery and is concurrent with Choi’s current exhibition Love and Wondervision, at the Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University. A conversation with the artist and Gary K. Wolf, author and creator of Roger Rabbit, will be scheduled over Zoom, details forthcoming.
Astro-futurist world builder JooYoung Choi (b. 1982, Seoul, South Korea) documents the interconnecting narratives of a highly structured, expansive fictional land called the Cosmic Womb through painting, video, soft sculpture, animation, puppetry, music, interactive community projects, and installation art. Choi’s complex and thoughtful interdisciplinary projects merge the autobiographic with the fantastic to form a dynamic, heartfelt, and imaginative aesthetic practice. Guided by this narrative, her work explores themes such as anti-racism, gender inclusivity, transracial adoptee rights, post-traumatic growth, and spirituality rooted in social justice.
Focusing primarily on two-dimensional work, Discovering Truth Will Make Me Free features paintings made between 2015 and 2023, one large scale soft sculpture, and one hybrid object-video work. This extended timeframe offers a unique opportunity for viewers to “time travel” within the chronology of the Cosmic Womb and experience multiple bodies of work in the same space. Narrative threads within the Cosmic Womb emerge, unfold, and resolve simultaneously, capturing the canonical growth of Choi’s characters as well as the development of the artist’s own practice and aesthetic. At its core, the exhibition explores and celebrates relationships: a collective relationship to the universe, shared familial relationships, and the relationship to oneself. “
Reception: July 14, 2023 | 5–7 pm
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