Hyun-Jee Jung

Leather Brick Series for a Bag, 2022 The work is a three-dimensional space composed of leather, which the artist recognized as a medium that constitutes a two-dimensional space. The artist paid attention to the different points of material’s characters such as the colors and the features of surfaces from each side of the leather and she intersected them to reveal the various properties of leather. The artist cut the thin leather into the same width and piled up the layers one by one to complete a structure from the base to the top as if the bag were a single structure likewise a wall of the building.

Artist Biography Artist Hyun-Jee Jung makes various attempts by going back and forth between two-dimensional and three-dimensional fibers. Recently, she is concentrating on traditional craft techniques of Korean textile work using silk and she continues to work in Korea and Netherlands. She participated in a number of craft and design fairs such as Seoul Craft Trend Fair, Milan Fair, and Dutch Design Week and her work is displayed in various galleries in Seoul, London and Rotterdam.