Yeeyoung Ham, a South Korean ceramic artist based in Europe, creates works imbued with silence, tension, and light. Her sculptures, often white or subtly tinted, explore the delicate boundary between chaos and harmony.
Trained in South Korea before continuing her research in Europe, she cultivates an aesthetic of restraint and controlled disorder. Inspired by the alchemy of chaos, Yeeyoung Ham finds beauty in fragments, sculpting a form of poetry from matter that has been broken and reimagined. Her hand-built pieces reveal unexpected forms, born from imbalance and reconstruction.
The artist draws inspiration from the cycles of urban construction sites, where structures collapse only to rise again, where destruction and rebirth coexist in a single breath. This dynamic informs her relationship with clay: for her, ceramics becomes a metaphor for a world in constant transformation.
Through a subtle interplay of transparency, translucency, and light, Yeeyoung Ham bridges the Korean tradition of white porcelain (baekja) with European minimalism. Her contemplative works invite us to look differently, to perceive the fragile beauty of things in the process of becoming.
Trained in South Korea before continuing her research in Europe, she cultivates an aesthetic of restraint and controlled disorder. Inspired by the alchemy of chaos, Yeeyoung Ham finds beauty in fragments, sculpting a form of poetry from matter that has been broken and reimagined. Her hand-built pieces reveal unexpected forms, born from imbalance and reconstruction.
The artist draws inspiration from the cycles of urban construction sites, where structures collapse only to rise again, where destruction and rebirth coexist in a single breath. This dynamic informs her relationship with clay: for her, ceramics becomes a metaphor for a world in constant transformation.
Through a subtle interplay of transparency, translucency, and light, Yeeyoung Ham bridges the Korean tradition of white porcelain (baekja) with European minimalism. Her contemplative works invite us to look differently, to perceive the fragile beauty of things in the process of becoming.
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