Artist Yoon Hyun-jin

Among many human needs, the need for self-realization may be a desire to realize each individual's inborn ability or growth potential. It is sometimes confronted with an obstacle, but it can be further grown by overcoming it. This examines various kinds of gesture and emotion that human beings can feel in their self-realizations, and apply them to the body sculptures. Human beings usually share their emotions based on their direct/indirect experiences in a certain situation, which are regarded as sensitive ones. They drop tears with sensation and sorrow or make smiles with happiness and delight, from songs, films, drawings and texts. Thus, such a sensitive experience, a reference is created based on these various emotions, and we can understand and communicate emotions of each other on the basis of it. I intends to manufacture the objet through which authors and users can share their sensitive emotions.

Artist Lee Sang-yong

“Objetronics”
“Objetronics” is a story about the new functions and roles of crafts through the fusion of crafts and home appliances.

If we were to distinguish two essentials of the purpose of the existence of modern crafts, one can be called functional craft, and the other one, a craft of objet-ity for decorative purposes. Of course, this does not mean that fine craftworks that are both functional and decorative do not exist, but based on the way modern crafts are produced, they can be differentiated into industrial crafts and artistic crafts. Since the Industrial Revolution, machines have replaced the hands of craftsmen in many areas, and spanning the industrialization era of the 20th century, designers who received modern education have created numerous objects in place of the creative spirit of craftsmen. It is certain that modern people enjoy the most material affluence in human history. Nevertheless, why do modern people struggle with psychological poverty, constantly yearning for desire? I ask myself if it is not because our surroundings today are filled with empty shells that are nothing but beautiful, as Immanuel Kant stated in Critique of Pure Reason, “Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind”.

“Objetronics” began with the question of what can enrich the space where we stay.

Artist Park Sun-young

My name is Seon-young Park. I learned to make pottery because I loved pottery, and that has become my profession. I happened to draw a flower one day and that has now become my life. Although I sometimes get lost in other thoughts, leaving my work behind, I come to realize that the moment of drawing flowers is my happiest moment.

I draw flowers with the traditional Korean blue and white porcelain technique. It is a work of drawing blue flowers in pure white pottery. Those flowers are peonies and all my flowers are peonies.

A saying by someone that lingers in my memory. And I say this, for his heart resonates with mine.

The desire to live with a big heart
With overflowing depth and breadth
Embraced my heart with a desire to live through life
So became a peony with large petals
And so became a peony spreading rich fragrance.