Roots, Realms and Reveries is a two-person exhibition featuring Cockpit maker Woo Jin Joo, and artist Molly Burrows, 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 through the galley.
Woo Jin Joo (b. Korea; living in London) is an artist whose work delves into the boundaries of human perception, drawing from mythology, folklore, shamanism, and alternative modes of knowing. Joo explores how sculptural forms—often initiated from found or discarded objects—offer a passage into the subconscious, merging the realms of the internal and imagined with the external world. For Joo, the act of working with found elements reflects the happenstance nature of our encounters with the everyday, where even the most mundane interactions can harbour potential for transformation and creativity. Through her meticulous process of embroidery and craft, she imbues objects with limbs, symbols, shapes, and colors, blending physical forms with the fluidity of internal narratives and memories.The resulting works are imbued with an uncanny potency and infused with humour as well as mystery. Woo Jin is currently based at Cockpit as the inaugural awardee of the Cockpit Bagri Award.
