HYUN-JOO KIM(Julia)
Fine Art Sculpture Craft/Ceramics/Video
My conceptual work focuses on sculpture, installations, and videos to convey the metaphysical conditions of death. It is a philosophical study of the mind that explores separation and pain. It is an equivocal interpretation of mental and physical emotions. To express this, I used threads, cloth, sewing, stockings, and paper to create an environment that expresses the shape of the human body dying helplessly. This project aims to emphasise the vulnerability, pain, and the weak form of our own bodies.
Family
Everyday I write to my family whom I miss. I collected the letters and wove them into threads to make traditional skirts and jeogori. This is an intimate expression of my inner sadness, emptiness, and longing through installation.
‘ Fragmented of My Body ’
Quilt Fabric, Sewing, Cotton, 2021.
My work explores the relationship between a mind and body that has experienced trauma, expressed through severed body parts. I cut the fabric and put cotton into it to project the body. The form of the body was focused on elements of exaggeration, extinction, weakness, screams, and scales. The material symbolises warmth and longing by using quilted clothes. Sewing represents my grief and my hands and feet were used as models. This task is to help heal the internal through external creation. Past memories and emotions take the form through sculptural materials, and my inner self is a source of creative inspiration.
Stockings, String, Polystyrene, 2021.
‘Fragmented of my body/face’
My project began to explore the bodily experience of loss and fragmentation due to the unexpected sadness stemming from last year's pandemic. Cutting and damaging my body is a metaphor for extreme emotion. My emotions become immersed and confused in the image of overlapping pain, sadness, and grief through a short video. The work is sometimes inexplicably heavy and depressing and melancholy. It's traumatic.
craft/ceramics.
‘Peony in full bloom on a plate’
I create novelty by mixing traditional methods and contemporary art.
Experience an oriental painting. The metaphorical and delicate shape and peony flowers blooming in big plate reach the height of beauty.
Stoneware, 1290~1300, cobalt glazed, hand-drowning, 2019.
Ceramic, some enlargement, attempted surreal work. It is a humorous and beautiful install with aspects of both traditional and modern beauty. The objects in everyday life were reinterpreted and created into new objects. It was very interesting to explore the modified form that could be made of clay.
Raku-clay, objects, colour glazed, domestic tools, 2019.
Contact
For projects, or any questions you can contact me here:
hjookim1973@gmail.com
Instagram : harg,ar_i
Stoneware, 1290~1300, Wheel- throwing, Light, 2019.
‘ The harmony of celadon and white porcelain’
This tableware work is oriental and modern and pursues a modified form in a traditional way. Also, the lighting was intended to be harmonised by making it a celadon. I made it both shiny and matte; elegant and healing.
I explored the colour of celadon (jade) which is the highest level. It requires a high degree of skill and experience. The environment is also very important to its creation and execution.