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Opening Soon
29 October- 7 November, 2026
Opening Reception
Thursday, 29 October, 5-8 PM
Location
Koninginneweg 245, 1075 CT
Open daily: 12-5 PM
Artist
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Gwen Park presents Mama, a solo exhibition by Youngjoo Cho. Drawing on her experience of childbirth and raising a child, Cho examines motherhood through the body and the daily work of care. Her works bring its intimacy and vulnerability into view, alongside the demands placed on women. The exhibition considers motherhood as both a personal experience and a role shaped by wider expectations.
The exhibition brings together two video installations and a range of related installations, objects and works on paper. A curtain installation and a score, among other works, take as their starting point a diary Cho kept while caring for her newborn. It records the rhythms of feeding, nappy changes and sleep, task by task. This precise account shows how care organises a mother’s day and demands sustained attention, often at the cost of her own time and needs.
This close view of maternal care opens onto broader representations of the female body in Cho’s experimental film Flesh Behind the Curtain (2025). Through intimate, subversive vignettes, the film examines meanings projected onto the female body, from sexuality to politics, connecting motherhood with the social ideas that shape how women’s bodies and identities are seen.
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Youngjoo Cho, Video Excerpt from Flesh Behind the Curtain, 2025
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Cho’s recent works expand her practice toward multimedia approaches that explore audience participation and its influence on the work. In Flesh Behind the Curtain (2025), she examines the female body as a site of intimacy, vulnerability, and social projection, connecting personal bodily experiences with broader constructions of femininity and identity. Her recent practice increasingly engages with diverse perspectives and lived experiences, including those of older adults, transgender people, and children, broadening her exploration of the body and its relationship to social norms.
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The video installation Writing My Body explores how Cho’s personal experiences of motherhood inform her artistic practice. By documenting her newborn’s daily patterns alongside her own actions and responses to the child’s needs, Cho transforms intimate observations into a broader reflection on the often overlooked struggles, sacrifices, and conditions of motherhood. This personal diary forms the basis for a series of related works, including Full Time–Double and Writing My Body Score, which showcase her further engagement with the original records.
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Youngjoo Cho, Video Excerpt from Writing my Body, 2019
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Youngjoo Cho: Mama
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