[News] Women Artists Shine at Frieze Masters. Here Are 5 of Our Favorite Rediscoveries, From a Korean Avant-Garde Visionary to a British-Born Surrealist

The boldly experimental practice of Korean artist JUNG Kangja (1942-2017), who never shied from making political statements, was censored in 1970 by the Korean government, forcing her to flee to Singapore. It would be more than a decade before she could return. One of JUNG’s installations on show will be To Repress (1968), a visual representation of “the oppressed existence of women” in which a heavy steel pipe squashes and compresses piled sheets of cotton. Like Kngwarray, she also used batik, producing many ambiguous studies of lone female figures. JUNG’s work is currently included in “Only the Young: Experimental Art in Korea, 1960s–1970s” at the Guggenheim in New York through January 7, 2024.

Oct 12, 2023