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Yujung Kwon — This is my home

Yujung Kwon transforms clay, wire, and the logic of Korean Jogakbo into sculptural works about identity, memory, and repair.

Works

Chapter I — Forms of Becoming
This chapter traces a single inquiry across two related phases: earlier works in which rupture, protection, and resilience appear in more embodied and direct forms, and later works that reinterpret the same concerns through a more distilled and contemporary structural language.
Self VI
Self VI
2026 · Ceramic · 33 × 30 × 52 cm
Layered glazes, shifting color fields, accumulated surface. Identity as provisional structure — shaped through relation, fragmentation, and continuity.
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Self V
Self V
2026 · Ceramic · 25 × 25 × 30 cm
Fractured form, exposed wire joins, layered glazes of conflicting properties. Rupture and surface accumulate together — tension held as part of identity's structure, not resolved.
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Self IV
Self IV
2026 · Ceramic · 32 × 30 × 25 cm
Completed, then broken. Smooth curves fractured deliberately — rupture introduced into a finished surface. The work holds the desire for wholeness and its undoing in the same form.
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Woman, Bloom, Cage
Woman, Bloom, Cage
2025 · Ceramic, Metal, Cotton · 32 × 51 cm
What reads as cage is built as shelter — soft by intention. An interior space everyone carries, quietly.
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Unseen
Unseen
2024 · Ceramic · 25 × 46 cm
What is hidden is not absent. The blindfold turns attention inward — compression and focus as a form of strength.
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Self II — I am ok.
Self II — I am ok.
2024 · Ceramic · 22 × 36 cm
Stitched seams, darkened traces, visible repair. Fracture held on the surface — endurance and instability registered at once, neither resolved nor concealed.
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Self I
Self I
2024 · Ceramic · 14 × 17 cm
One side whole, the other fractured and rejoined with wire. The work that began the series — and the question it holds: how much of what we show is the side we choose to turn outward.
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Chapter II — Structures of Belonging
This chapter turns from the formation of the self to the structures that hold it. Through installation, vessel, and modular form, these works trace belonging not as inheritance or arrival, but as something shaped gradually through memory, continuity, and coexistence.
To the Place That Held Me
To the Place That Held Me
2025–2026 · Ceramic, Metal, Fabric · 200 × 60 × 185 cm
Moon jar, stitched ceramic panels, stacked totem. Belonging traced through time — not claimed on arrival, but shaped through memory, continuity, and coexistence of two cultural languages.
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Self III — Obangsaek
Self III — Obangsaek
2025 · Ceramic, Metal · 26 × 103 cm
The self has a core — Korea's five cardinal colors. What accumulates around it — memory, experience — never fits perfectly. That imperfection is the structure.
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Jogakbo Series
Jogakbo Series
2024–2025 · Ceramic · Various sizes
Korean patchwork reinterpreted as a language of identity. Each seam remains visible — not decoration, but evidence of continuity within fracture.
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Memory II
Memory II
2026 · Ceramic · 20 × 20 × 20 cm
Glaze and raku-fired marks on a vessel surface. Memory held as fluid, partial, continuously reconfigured — never fixed.
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Moves
Moves
2024 · Ceramic · 21 × 21 cm
Moon jar form, Saekdong colors in motion. Each stroke a personal journey — movement and stillness held in the same surface.
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About

Yujung Kwon

Yujung Kwon is a Korean multidisciplinary artist based between the UAE and South Korea. Working with clay, wire, and textile, she explores identity as something assembled through memory, fracture, and repair. Drawing from the structural logic of Korean Jogakbo, her works leave seams, joins, and ruptures visible. Rather than restoring what is broken, Kwon treats repair as a way of holding lived experience in form.

After two decades working across multinational organizations, she turned to art full-time in 2023. The accumulated weight of that experience runs through every work.

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Exhibitions
Apr 2026
DIFC Art Nights, 21st Edition Dubai, UAE The Shape of Belonging
Feb 2026
SIKKA Art & Design Festival Dubai, UAE To the Place That Held Me
Nov 2025
Masterclass Exhibition Gimhae Art and Sports Center, South Korea
Nov 2025
DIFC Art Nights, 20th Edition Dubai, UAE
Oct 2025
KUAKA Group Exhibition Abu Dhabi, UAE Gyeol (결)
Feb 2025
SIKKA Art & Design Festival Dubai, UAE 3/4–9
Feb 2025
KUAKA Group Exhibition Abu Dhabi, UAE When We Love
Nov 2024
DIFC Art Nights, 18th Edition Dubai, UAE
Residencies & Mentorship
2026
DCAD Ceramic Residency Design Council Abu Dhabi, UAE Ongoing
2025
Gimhae Craft Creation Center Masterclass South Korea
2024–25
Artist Mentorship Programme Cultural Foundation Abu Dhabi, UAE Mentored by Shaikha Al Mozrou
Education
2013–15
MBA HEC Paris, France
1996–00
BA, Child Education & Psychology Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea

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