Artist Woo Hannah, who acquired a BA and MA in Fine Arts from the Department of Visual Arts, became the winner of the 1^st Inaugural Frieze Seoul Artist Award. Established in the previous year, the Frieze Seoul takes place for the second time in the upcoming September. The event aims to provide an opportunity for new artists to present their works and showcase their names on the global stage by granting the artist award. 

Woo Hannah’s winning commission The Great Ballroom is an installation work that uses a fabric elongated from the ceiling resembling hanging curtains in the ballroom or a bat’s wings spreading in the air, bringing the image of the female breasts to the audience’s mind. As seen in a woman’s breasts that swell before breastfeeding and subside afterward, the installation metaphorically displays the stages a woman’s body changes over time, embracing the inevitability of the decaying, aging, and changing of the body. The work will be curated at the COEX, Seoul, during the festival.

The jury commented on the work, “Woo introduced the sculptor that challenged the stereotype of the notion of femininity born from intact pondering on the topic.” Using fabrics, Woo Hannah has worked on configuring body parts or organs of human or animal bodies into the installations or sculptors.