JI YOUNG KIM

Designer biography:

After 20 years of writing for broadcasting mass media, Ji young Kim is now using metal to find her own formative language and write a new story. Her work consists of jewelry and objects. But work is not limited to these genres. She conceives exhibitions challenging the beholder as both exhibit and exhibition concept are autonomous art work.

The starting point of her work is perhaps a word. Most people use the verb "wear" for the act of wearing jewelry, while in Korea, they use the verb "fill (chanda)". It is a word that Koreans use casually, but she did not miss these verbs and paid attention to them.

She was born in Rep of Korea and lives and works in Paju, a city near DMZ, North Korea. She earned her MFA from the Kookmin University graduate school for metal and jewelry design in Seoul, her work can be seen in public collections in Europe, China and Rep of Korea.

Collection concept:

The meaning of invisible language in my work becomes an important material. In Korea, when expressing the act of attaching jewelry to the body, a slightly different word is used, not the word wear. It is a verb 'fill'. My formative languages inspired by this are verbs. In other words, there is a moving element in all forms, and its meaning expands and grows according to the viewer. My question can be seen as life, as a question, as an experiment, and I dream that I can fill space, fill the body, and fill the invisible mind, not in the drawer. This is because there are things in the world that are easily judged to look shabby or play no role at a glance, but it can be another meaning or show the device to those who dream of it.

There is a moving element in my work. It creates an invisible space that is not attached to the main body, and it indicates the ambiguity that our judgment of recognizing the space and shape between objects cannot be clearly separated. I technically utilized the corrosion of metal, and to do this, I artificially took time from the future and used it as a material for my work, and I had to use a special invisible solder, and I couldn't see a device that could be identified as jewelry at first sight. The invisible device is expanded by human touch, and the inside revealed is like an unpredictable aspect of life. No one knows what's in it. Things, people, and values are unknown until they are revealed. For a dreamer, it will show three bracelets, four necklaces, and 10 million objects, yes, it can be.

Ji Young Kim (South Korea)

JI YOUNG KIM

Designer biography: