When We Drop Fear | Solo Exhibition by Chansong Woo
Detail from Chansong Woo’s When We Drop Fear
September 5th through 26th; Opening Reception September 5th 1 PM to 9 PM
COOP is pleased to present When We Drop Fear, a solo exhibition by Northwest Arkansas-based artist, Chansong Woo. In this participatory exhibition, visitors encounter large drawings hung from the ceiling as visual remnants of the artist’s personal memories, transformed from intangible to tangible form. Visitors are welcome to interact with the drawings by expressing their personal memories related to fear, something they wish to forget, or something they don’t want to forget. Visitors may use the torn pieces to communicate this memory in any way that feels right to them: verbal/written words, sentences, drawings, paintings, or other visual forms. This project begins with the artist’s personal memory and evolves into a shared experience and colective memory, growing and transforming as more participants contribute. By engaging with this piece, viewers have the opportunity to express, confront, or release something related to fear within themselves. The fragments they leave behind wi l live on as part of our shared story.
More about the Artist
Chansong Woo is an interdisciplinary artist based in Northwest Arkansas. Her artwork explores how personal memory and trauma can be articulated through art. By engaging with themes of vulnerability and subjectivity, her art invites viewers as a post generation from diverse backgrounds to reflect on how history is learned and remembered across generations. Her work has been exhibited at Pen and Brush (New York, NY), Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts (Montgomery, AL), InselGalerie (Berlin, Germany), York Art Galery (York, England), Whatcom Museum (Belingham, WA), Pensacola Museum of Art (Pensacola, FL), MoFA (Ta lahassee, FL), ATHICA (Athens, GA), Songwon Art Center, and Palais de Seoul (Seoul, South Korea). She received her MFA in Studio Art from Florida State University and her BFA and MFA degrees in Painting from Sookmyung Women's University in Seoul, South Korea.