YOONJUNG CHOI

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Designer biography:

Jewelry Artist

Ph.D., Metal Art & Design, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea

Group Exhibition

2023 Decorative Digitalism/ Temple Contemporary at Tyler School of Art and Architecture/ U.S.A.

2023 Cheongju Craft Biennale 2023_The Geography of Objects/ Cheongju, Korea

2022 ArsLonga. Medicine and Art/ Gallery SP/ Seoul, Korea

2022 KCDA_Korea Craft Designer Association 2022, Downtown Art Center/ Hawaii U.S.A.

2021 Craft Trend Fair 2021_形形色色/ Coex/ Seoul Korea

2020 Dear Snowman: Craft Exhibition/ Yoolizzy Craft Museum/ Seoul Korea

Solo Exhibition

2020 The Breath Pouch 2020/ Gallery Ahwon/ Seoul Korea

2021 The Breath Pouch/ Craft on the hill Gallery/ Seoul Korea

2019 Breath, The Sculpture of Volume/ Coex/ Seoul Korea

Award

2019 ITAMI International Jewellery Exhibition: Judge’s Choice/ Museum of Art & Crafts Itami/ Japan

Collection concept:

My jewelry work embodies a restrained symbolization of the moments when life swells and

subsides with each breath, revealing the unseen history of life—encompassing eternity and

fleeting moments, existence and absence. My recent work in the <Breath Series> draws inspiration from the forms of organs like the heart and lungs within living organisms. These pieces sculpturally represent the morphological features of these organs that function as pathways for breath to enter and exit the body. The most prominent feature is the protruding entrance on the rounded structure. This element symbolizes a conduit connecting the inside and outside of the body, reminiscent of vessels or pouches containing breath. Additionally, these forms evoke the imagery of bodies being born as they fill with breath and fading away as they empty, capturing the cycle of life and death.

Yoonjung Choi (Republic of Korea)

YOONJUNG CHOI

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