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Ha-Yeon Joo (2000) is based in Seoul, South Korea. She entered Korea National University of Arts in 2019. She recently finished her exchange semester at Beaux-Arts de Paris. She practices various media, including performance, installation, painting, and sculpture. Her works suggest leading-and-misleading experiences that necessarily incorporate performative movements of spectators. The focusing point on the work is to be uncertain, in a constant state of change.
Breathe. Grind the stone and drink the dust. The stone sculpture series “Paperweight” (2023) shown for this exhibition suggests a drawing activity on a 3 dimensional oeuvre. The act of carving follows what the soft limestone claims in their characteristics. The volume is built by compromising between the specific shape and the exposed surface