"Weaving becomes acts of resistance and reclamation in Yeo Workshop’s latest exhibition, which fits very well with the art world’s general turn to textiles, previously relegated to the domain of “craft”.
The eight artists assembled in the space express their desire to be the architects of their own lives.
For instance, the organ-shaped bags by Hannah Woo – winner of the inaugural artist award at Frieze Seoul in 2023 – are objects of defiance, created after discovering that one of her kidneys had shrunk abnormally in 2019.
In Iranian artist Leila Seyedzadeh’s collaged fabrics, she collapses geography so New York’s East River runs through Tehran’s Alborz mountains, capturing her own immigrant journey.
The exhibition’s title is borrowed from the writings of Vietnamese physician Nguyen Tuong Bach, whose ideas about human beings’ agency are influenced by quantum physics and Buddhist thought."
