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GOT

Jian Yoo2023.04.12 ~ 2023.08.31

Description of the work

  • Media Mother-of-Pearl, Metal
  • Location LOTTE HOTEL SEOUL MAIN TOWER 1F
The GOT series was discovered in the process of asking what traditional object of Korean culture could deliver the spirit of Korean craftsmen to today’s world and simultaneously be unique, creative, and appealing to the public. The traditional Korean hat, got, served a dual purpose as an item to cover the face from the sun as well as to reveal one's social status. For the GOT series, instead of the horsehair or long, thin strips of bamboo traditionally used, slender mother-of-pearl strips were inlaid, one by one, to the brim held up by a cone or cylinder. While the traditional got shielded faces from the sun, GOT instead powerfully emits the radiant shine of the mother-of-pearl.

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About the author

Jian Yoo presents a new image with the coexistence of contrasting elements, such as nature-artificiality and traditional-contemporary, through the mother-of-pearl. Her works, which can be defined as “In Between”, result from various perspectives discovered through different environments and cultures. Having majored in design in the US, Yoo uses various mediums, such as paintings, objects, art furniture and more, and does not separate design, craft, and art from each other. In this way, her works create a connectivity between mediums and become the cause that expands the world of art.

Her works reveal a kind of brilliance that can only be realized when thousands and thousands of small glimmers of light come together to form a whole. With the material being brought from nature, the artist focuses on respecting its unique qualities, while also highlighting them. As the small pieces gather, one by one, what they complete within the art is temporality and connectivity. The flow of time embraced by the natural material and the process of searching for the most optimal path by communicating - these aspects are condensed into multi-layers of time to create high density within the art.
Jian Yoo (1982~, Republic of Korea)
Pratt Institute (New York, U.S), B.F.A. in Interior Design