Rooted in traditions historically shaped by patriarchy but often challenged by women—such as calligraphy (서예, seoye), classical poetry (한시, hansi) and literati painting (문인화, muninhwa)—Écriture with the Body reclaims these artistic forms through an embodied feminist lens. Here, writing is not merely a tool of communication but a visceral assertion of presence, memory, and identity. By inscribing bodily expressions into text, the artists create transformative experiences for audiences. Their works question and transcend formal conventions, offering new perspectives and forging empowering narratives that reclaim space within a historically patriarchal artistic lineage.

This collaboratively organized exhibition spans three venues and features four interrelated subthemes. Through media art, photography, and installation, these artists challenge the structural logics of language and culture, interrogating the hierarchies embedded within them. Drawing from embodied, diasporic, and feminist experiences, they disrupt fixed systems of meaning and propose new visual and textual grammars. Their practices reimagine “écriture” (the French word for writing) as fragmented, hybrid, and open-ended—resisting assimilation while opening space for multiplicity, uncertainty, and radical subjectivity.