Category
CraftCountry
KoreaGenre
Objects & Sculptural Craft, Metal & Jewelry
Yoonji Lee’s practice draws inner stories into the open.
For the artist, the hand becomes a conduit, an instrument that calls the interior into reality.
In place of language, she entrusts her voice to touch, allowing emotion to surface through the movements of her hand.
A day’s gesture lingers as a trace: it may crumple, or it may unfurl again.
Over time, such marks gather layer upon layer until they form a kind of record, visible to those outside the self.
Passed once more through the artist’s hands, these records take shape as objects and everyday forms.
They do not declare, “Look at me,” yet they carry a quiet desire to be seen.
Within the seams of binding and along folded surfaces, the artist’s words remain concealed, held, and left behind.
2024 'Tea, Inside' Project & Exhibition ,Seoul National University of Science and Technology (Seoul, South Korea)
2024 'Dot.Dot.Dot', Marti Gallery (Seoul, South Korea)
2024 'Craft Trend Fair 2024' Craft Ying Booth, Coex (Seoul, South Korea)
2025 Exhibition and Sales at Conte B Hannam Gallery (Seoul, South Korea)
2025 'Our Craft', NH Construction (Yongin, South Korea)
2025 'Strike While the Iron Is Hot', KCDF Gallery, (Seoul, South Korea)
2025 'Dew Point', Sanggye Arts Plaza, (Seoul, South Korea)
2025 'Maison&Objet 2025' K-MOMENT Booth, (Paris, France)
2025 'Taoxichuan Spring & Autumn Art Fair' (Jingdezhen, China)
2025 'Seoul Design Festival 2025', BWM Booth (Seoul, South Korea)
2025 'CODE UP, ver.25', Moksan Gallery (Seoul, South Korea)
Objects & Sculptural Craft, Metal & Jewelry
Craft
Following the flow of her fingertips, she etches emotion into metal. Applying tin over copper goes beyond mere surface treatment; it becomes a sculptural language where the grain of emotion is imbued through direction, pressure, and speed. Through repeated acts of coating and rubbing, the cold metal sheds its raw materiality, slowly transforming into a warm surface that cradles the artist’s inner voice.
Production Year: 2025
Production Technique: Tin plating on copper, Hammer-textured handle, Ottchil lacquered interior
Following the flow of her fingertips, she etches emotion into metal. Applying tin over copper goes beyond mere surface treatment; it becomes a sculptural language where the grain of emotion is imbued through direction, pressure, and speed. Through repeated acts of coating and rubbing, the cold metal sheds its raw materiality, slowly transforming into a warm surface that cradles the artist’s inner voice.
Production Year: 2025
Production Technique: Tin plating on copper, Hammer-textured handle, Ottchil lacquered interior
