JI-HYUN SONG

Cluster Exhibitor | Cluster Crafts | 2022

 
 

Copper Variation

 

Jihyun Song based on Korea graduated with a MA in Ceramics and Glass from the Royal College of Art in 2021. She was selected for Rising Star in the New Ashgate Gallery in Farnham 2022 and exhibited at the Cromwell Space and Design Museum in London in 2021. In 2022 she worked on a project ‘Shards’ in the European Ceramic Work Centre supported by Art Council Korea.

 
 
 

Celadon Pipes

Celadon Pipes

 

Copper Variation

 
 

Revealed Structures

The shard is a project consisting of large still-life ceramic sculptures made in artist residence ‘Sundaymorning@EKWC’ in the Netherlands. A shard is a fragment of ceramics, metal, glass and rock, and also a broken structure that is used to construct inside and outside. After the destruction by an external force, each fragment reveals hidden components of the body like the circulatory system or structure frame. I explored the components composed of buildings such as pipe, bricks, and metal beams beyond the demolished structure, and I reassembled them into an unfamiliar composition or imitated by fragile ceramics.
— JI-HYUN SONG
 

Revealed Structures

 
 

Structure bar

 
As fragile ceramics are combined with industrial materials, they emphasise their fragility and flexibility even their durability. I expanded this practice through my Korean background, representing Asians by experimenting with traditional Asian glazes such as celadon and copper-red on the shards amongst my interest of cultural diversity and the originality and the beauty of each pottery shard as an object containing a memory.
— JI-HYUN SONG

Ceramic Wire

 
 

Copper variation #02