Debuting at Frieze New York, luxurious skincare model THE WHOO is collaborating with girls artists Okay Kim, Subin Seol and Jian Yoo for a curated exhibition on the truthful. The three artists’ works discover magnificence by way of very explicit up to date software of conventional Korean craft methods, as they clarify on this video.
Seol’s hand-fires particular person ceramic items to make practical objects comparable to benches and tables in muted tones. Seeing custom as ‘a dialog between generations,’ she attracts comparisons between her work and giwa: historic clay roofing tiles, which reveal delicate variations within the marks of their makers.
Reviving the traditional strategy of ottchill – a follow for the reason that third century BCE of utilizing tree sap to lacquer valuable objects – Kim additionally sees her fusion of custom and the up to date within the ‘Untitled’ sequence of picket panels and daring sculptural ‘Abyss Objects’, introduced within the show, as ‘one thing that transcends time.’
Yoo creates shimmering summary surfaces from the intricate software of mother-of-pearl inlay. For the exhibition at Frieze New York, she is creating THE WHOO Artwork & Heritage Set: three intricate caskets that extending her sequence, ‘Past the Ocean’, which ‘categorical the timeless magnificence’ on the coronary heart of THE WHOO’s providing.
Introduced collectively, the works create a dialogue about heritage and the rejuvenation. ‘It’s not about preserving thepast,’ Seol says, ‘it’s about reimagining it by way of the current.’
