Korean-Canadian artist Sun Woo presents her solo exhibition 《Shelter》 at Gallery Vacancy in Shanghai from November 14 to December 27, 2025. This marks the artist’s first solo project with the gallery and signals a significant turning point in her practice, where the sensory structures of contemporary life—embodied through notions of the body, labor, and technology—are condensed into a sculptural, immersive environment.
 
The exhibition brings together traces of domestic labor and remnants of technological apparatuses to form a cohesive, immersive space. Natural materials, old household objects, and machine parts from various periods intertwine, stripping familiar items of their original functions and revealing new layers of sensory meaning.
 
As viewers move through the installation, they experience the intersecting sensations of protection and constraint. “Shelter” emerges not as a simple refuge but as a complex emotional landscape where tension, rupture, settlement, and displacement coexist.
 
Throughout her practice, Sun Woo has explored themes of migration, boundary, and the technologized body. Her work reflects on how the body belongs, or fails to belong, to certain spaces, while also examining how the sensory perceptions of digital-native generations are continually reshaped. Moving fluidly across painting, sculpture, and installation, the artist has developed a vocabulary attentive to the shifting relations between body and environment.

In the recent exhibition 《PANORAMA》 at SONGEUN Art and Cultural Foundation, she visualized the tension between body and environment through the collision of technological remnants and everyday objects. 《Shelter》 deepens this trajectory, activating objects, memory, and technology simultaneously within a single spatial field.

The exhibition space is designed so that meaning is constantly rearranged according to the viewer’s movement. The texture of household materials, the tactile surface of fabrics, the coolness of mechanical components, and the warmth of natural substances intersect, drawing the body directly into the work.
 
Within this shifting environment, sensations of dwelling and departure, protection and confinement, repeatedly surface. As everyday objects become estranged from their usual roles, the installation reveals the emotional and technological structures shaping contemporary existence.
 
While 《Shelter》 begins with the humble materials of daily life, it exposes the social and technological contexts embedded within them, prompting a deeper inquiry into the foundations of contemporary perception. The moment when the traces of labor meet the residue of technology expands the experience beyond visual engagement into a psychological encounter.
 
By condensing these complexities into sculptural form, Sun Woo illuminates the duality within the notion of “Shelter,” capturing the emotional conditions of our time with precision. Ultimately, 《Shelter》 extends the trajectory of Sun Woo’s sculptural language and offers a profound investigation into contemporary bodily experience, labor, and technology.

Sun Woo is a Korean-Canadian artist whose practice spans painting, sculpture, and installation. Her work examines issues of the body, technology, migration, and spatial boundaries. Grounded in the sensory frameworks of the digital-native generation, she explores the points where reality, memory, materiality, and technological environments collide.

Using natural materials, everyday objects, and industrial remnants, she constructs layered sculptural compositions that redefine the sensory relationship between body and space. Her recent installations, which intersect sensory experience with social conditions, have attracted significant attention.
 

 
Exhibition Information

Exhibition Title :《Sun Woo: Shelter》
Dates : November 14 – December 27, 2025
Venue : Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai
Address : 261 South Yunnan Road, Shanghai, China