Exhibit: Soft Containers: Inventory of Desire by Yunkyoung Cho - W-5, June 10 - July 5, 2026.

Location: W-5

On View: June 10 - July 5, 2026

Opening Reception: June 13, 2026, Saturday 6 - 9pm

Soft Containers: Inventory of Desire brings together Ch’aekgeori, the What’s in My Bag series, and textile-based accumulations of Happy Meal boxes to examine how objects hold, conceal, and construct desire. Drawing from the historical language of Ch’aekgeori—where books and objects signify knowledge, status, and cultural order—the work reconfigures the still life as a contemporary system of personal and emotional inventory.

In What’s in My Bag, everyday belongings function as intimate archives, mapping identity through what is carried, kept, and revealed. The repeated, fabric-based Happy Meal boxes introduce chance and anticipation: before opening, each container holds a promise shaped by expectation, yet the outcome remains uncertain—sometimes fulfilling desire, sometimes not.

Across these bodies of work, containers become soft, tactile, and unstable structures. They hold not only objects, but projections of longing, memory, and uncertainty—an accumulated inventory of what we hope for, and what we receive.

Yunkyoung Cho is a multidisciplinary artist working in sculpture, textile, and installation. Drawing from the visual language of Ch’aekgeori, she explores how objects function as carriers of memory, identity, and desire. Her work reinterprets still-life traditions through contemporary materials and accumulative forms. Cho received her MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and currently lives and works in Virginia.