G Gallery presents 《POOMSAE》, a solo exhibition by Hannah Woo, on view through September 27. Marking the artist’s first solo show at G Gallery, the exhibition offers a multifaceted look at her ongoing exploration of bodily transformation and emotional equilibrium.

The title “POOMSAE”—a term from traditional Korean martial arts that refers to postures for maintaining balance and center—symbolically reflects Woo’s artistic stance. The body’s movements, negotiating between destruction and creation, stability and fluidity, embody her persistent struggle within a state where ambivalence coexists.

In this exhibition, “POOMSAE” serves as a key motif, intuitively expressing the inherent dynamism and stance of existence—collapsing, resisting, and seeking balance—that permeates the entire show.

The artist’s ongoing material experiments and transformations become a means of physically unfolding the equilibrium of “POOMSAE”. By merging with resilient substances such as metal, clay, and aluminum cast, Woo stages sculptural collisions and recompositions, weaving new narratives between tension and flexibility. This interplay recalls the balance of strain and release that one experiences through the body’s act of maintaining equilibrium.

Through this exhibition, the artist creates a space to reflect on the body’s attitude of seeking balance within imperfection. Here, “POOMSAE” embodies how the body accepts and embraces deficiency, loss, and collapse without denial, and in doing so, gathers the strength to move once again toward its center. Witnessing these gestures allows the viewer to encounter a moment of genuine vitality revealed through the act itself.

“POOMSAE”
2025.08.27 - 2025.09.27
Mon-Sat 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
G Gallery
748, Samseong-ro, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Korea