Hannah Woo
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Hannah Woo is known for her captivating fabric sculptures that adopt human and animal body parts and organs. Her formless sculptures propagate and evolve into “oddkins” – soft and bizarre, repugnant yet gorgeous, endearing but never obedient – that traverse the boundaries between humans and non-human beings, organs and things. For Woo, fabric serves not merely as a material but as a space for unfettered tales of eccentric and flamboyant entities. It becomes an arena wherein her kaleidoscope of emotions wrestles and a fertile ground wherein unchecked fantasies and anomalous imaginings flourish ceaselessly. Instead of traditional or organic materials, Woo favors synthetic fibers, presenting a vibrant array of hues, textures, and patterns. These fibers can shimmer, ooze, bounce, or pulse with electrifying energy, ranging from gossamer-thin delicacy to a tangible crunch. Her works plunge the viewer into a mesmerizing domain infused with a blend of surrealism and the goth, drawing from influences such as anime, webtoons, anti-hero narratives, sci-fi, and other niche subcultures from mass media that colored her formative years. Her funky objects series are actually rooted in her personal discovery of an unexpected absence of one of her organs. This revelation, melded with emotions of inadequacy and loss, kindled the essence and transformative forms of her fabric sculptures.
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Hannah Woo is known for her captivating fabric sculptures that adopt human and animal body parts and organs. Her formless sculptures propagate and evolve into “oddkins” – soft and bizarre, repugnant yet gorgeous, endearing but never obedient – that traverse the boundaries between humans and non-human beings, organs and things. For Woo, fabric serves not merely as a material but as a space for unfettered tales of eccentric and flamboyant entities. It becomes an arena wherein her kaleidoscope of emotions wrestles and a fertile ground wherein unchecked fantasies and anomalous imaginings flourish ceaselessly. Instead of traditional or organic materials, Woo favors synthetic fibers, presenting a vibrant array of hues, textures, and patterns. These fibers can shimmer, ooze, bounce, or pulse with electrifying energy, ranging from gossamer-thin delicacy to a tangible crunch. Her works plunge the viewer into a mesmerizing domain infused with a blend of surrealism and the goth, drawing from influences such as anime, webtoons, anti-hero narratives, sci-fi, and other niche subcultures from mass media that colored her formative years. Her funky objects series are actually rooted in her personal discovery of an unexpected absence of one of her organs. This revelation, melded with emotions of inadequacy and loss, kindled the essence and transformative forms of her fabric sculptures.