“I think that it’s when we are able to feel free to speak our truth, there’s a lot of power in it,” said Artist JooYoung Choi. “I think each of my characters has gone through some kind of challenge where they face the consequence of hiding how they feel.”
UT Dallas EPPS partnered with the Crow Museum of Asian Art for their second collaboration on Tuesday, April 19, 2022. The panel included Choi, EPPS Dean Jennifer Holmes, and was moderated by Sr. Director of the Crow Museum of Asian Art Amy Lewis Hofland.
In this in-depth conversation with Houston-based multidisciplinary artist, Choi, spoke about identity through the lens of her current exhibition: Songs of Resilience from the Tapestry of Faith. This exhibition is currently on view at the Crow Museum of Asian Art.
Through painting, video, sculpture, animation, music and installation art, Choi documents the interconnecting narratives of a highly-structured, expansive, fictional land she has created and titled the Cosmic Womb.
In creating a world that explores loss, healing and growth based upon a connective web of belief and faith in oneself, Choi expresses human resiliency and the strength that can be found through the power of storytelling.
Choi explores issues of identity, belonging, trauma and resilience through the sci-fi/fantasy genre, inspired by the media of her childhood and her ongoing research on identity and the media representation of girls, women, intersex, transgender and non-binary people of color.
After the program, there was an opportunity for the audience to speak with the artist one-on-one.
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