An international, site-responsive art platform by Gabby Chu

Yoni Garden

Reconstructing identity through body, memory and cultural context. Yoni Garden creates spaces where women question inherited ideas of femininity and translate lived experience into their own visual language.

“If I am free from the identities given to me,
who might I become?”Yoni Garden · Core Question
What is Yoni Garden?

A space to reconstruct the self.

Yoni Garden questions the identities imposed upon women and creates a space where women can construct their own.

Identity is not treated as a fixed essence. It is continually formed through the body, personal experience, memory, language, place, culture and social structures. The project begins with the female body and expands outward into questions of selfhood, cultural inheritance and belonging.

Yoni Garden work
Participatory Method

Conversation becomes form.

Conversation → Reflection → Collection → Making → Sharing → Archive

Participants work with images, words, patterns, memories and locally meaningful materials to create symbolic Yoni Avatars. Each avatar becomes a self-portrait shaped by lived experience rather than a fixed definition of womanhood.

Workshop Format & Archive
Site-responsive practice

One framework. Different places. Different identities.

Australia · 2024

Brisbane

Direct drawing, body awareness and confronting the fear and taboo surrounding the vulva.

France · 2025

Paris

Magazine collage, imposed femininity and reclaiming self-image through selected visual fragments.

South Korea · 2025

Busan

Collage, social expectations, memory and the language women use to describe themselves.

Taiwan · Developing 2026

Taipei

Identity, local publications, women’s studies, visual culture and cultural memory.

Beyond Yoni Garden

Practices beyond Yoni Garden

Yoni Garden remains the central project, while other bodies of work unfold through material research, imagined worlds and personal mythology.

Long-term Project

Whappy World

A long-term personal mythology of houses, islands, paths and living beings.

Invite Yoni Garden
to your space.

Yoni Garden welcomes collaborations with art spaces, residencies, museums, universities, cultural organisations and communities.

chugabbyart@gmail.comView Workshop Proposal