@hkw_berlin: Meet the artist: Hana Yoo. 🌼 If she could explain her artwork at the exhibition Tirailleurs in just three words, it would be: Playful, Quiet and Resistance.     In her film and multimedia installations, Hana Yoo explores the collective anxiety and transcendental experiences that arise when perspectives bend and reverse. Women, animals, and representations of nature appear as symbolic protagonists who have historically been objectified, exploited, and controlled. An important reference in her work is the poetry publication A Cruelty Special to Our Species (2018) by South Korean poet Emily Jungmin Yoon, which brings to light the historical reality of Japan’s sexual slavery of Korean ‘comfort women’ during the Second World War, and amplifies the voices of survivors and the ongoing impact of their experiences. Yoo’s film I Came for the Flowers (2025) similarly pays homage to these women by bridging human and non-human experiences with footage of a study showcasing tonic immobility (or feigning death), a survival tactic used by female European common frogs to avoid mating. The passivity of playing dead is reimagined through dream-like sequencing, natural environments, and poetry, allowing the histories of these women—and the intergenerational effects and memories of gender-based violence—to unfold across time and emotionally ambiguous spaces. TIRAILLEURS: TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS   🗓️ 20 March – 14 June   🔗 More information: hkw.de/tirailleurs

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