Roots, Realms, and Reveries

ai. Gallery

1a Tenter Ground, London

Exhibiting Artists: Woo Jin Joo and Molly Burrows

Image courtesy of artists and ai. Gallery. Image credits to Ollie Hammick.

Roots, Realms and Reveries is a two-person exhibition featuring artists Molly Burrows and Woo Jin Joo, whose practices converge through a shared commitment to storytelling across diverse mediums—including embroidery, ceramics, painting, collage, and sculpture. Themes of transformation and imagined worlds unfold through myth-making, with the exhibition taking shape as a narrative journey over two floors of the gallery. Both artists have produced new bodies of works.

The exhibition is accompanied by two distinct soundscapes evoking the repeated whirring of a sewing machine, in one and an arrangement of traditional and classical East Asian percussion instruments, in the other. The score is a response to and intertwines with the works' quiet theatricality - depictions of characters in nature; in landscape, the manifestation of East Asian myths, beliefs, religions and shamanistic rituals which nods to the playful and sincere, curious and reverential, small and fearsome.