Fairy and Woodcutter

a special presentation art e-mail by Yeonoo Park+Jaewoo Kang

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In the format of a Tumblr fan blog, Jaewoo and Yeonoo invite you to indulge with them in the re-imagination of one of Korea’s most well-known folktales — The Fairy and the Woodcutter.

An ‘infinite scroll’ webpage of GIFs, photosets, fanfics, and re-blogs allude to the archetypal folktale, but escape its tropes by carrying new themes of queer intimacy. The internet has long been a place where queer communities form, come together, converse — the anonymity helps one to present themselves without preconceived judgment.

Fairy and the Woodcutter is a shamelessly cathartic and nostalgic experience, a chance to obsess together through a queer lens.

 

Yeonoo Park (b.1995, Seoul, Korea) is an emerging interdisciplinary artist currently based on the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh nations. Her recent paintings use animation as a tool to articulate gestures and movements. She is curious about the aspects of temporality and ambiguity intertwined in the process of deeply observing and reiterating everyday moments, memories, dreams, and daydreams into moving images. She takes great pleasure in cooking, swimming, team sports, and road trips.
Yeonoo completed her BFA at Emily Carr University of Art + Design in 2021. She has shown work for the City of Vancouver’s public art program Platforms 2020: Public Works (2020), in Window Art Walk, Vancouver (2022), and most recently exhibited sweetly, sparkly in the Glass Corner at the Libby Leshgold Gallery (2022).

Jaewoo Kang is a queer Korean-Canadian multi-disciplinary artist who experiments with and interweaves different art forms to create rich creative experiences. Born in Busan, Korea, he currently lives and works on the stolen and unceded land of xwməθkwəy̓əm(Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tseil-watuth) Nations. His training in art started with visual art, which has since led to interests in moving image. Since graduating from the Simon Fraser University Film Program, he has been working as an interdisciplinary artist. A major theme in his work is queer eroticism and how intimate moments with others can allow the self to have an introspective experience. In 2020, he received a Canada Council and BC Arts Council grant to make his first animated short 'Lover, Come Back to Me' which is currently in post-production. Making films has led him to work on costumes which has allowed him to further explore textiles, silhouettes and gender.

 

Number 3 Gallery is a mobile curatorial project focused on initiating tangential collaborations with contemporary artists and spaces. As a response to the lack of feasible real-estate in “vancouver’’, projects take place in a variety of contexts and question the ways in which access determines success and visibility. Number 3 Gallery is organized and curated by Julie D. Mills and Julia Lamare.

For more projects, visit number3gallery.com

This project is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts