work
In-between Space
 Time of Action
(historicity and objects)
GOBI series
seven squares
BOLD
standing
018 series



project
Primary Structure
Layered Layer
Curly
Scene of Small
(SKT x design press collaboration)



press
exhibition
text
  1. The purpose of this study is to recognize and mean the 'process' as a practical time as an alternative to human existential possibilities that are fixed and limited by meritocracy in modern society. The study would like to explore ways to visualize and express this perspective through furniture and prepare the theoretical and formative foundation for expanding it into a series.
  2. The process of reaching any outcome is not an empty time to pass and pass as quickly as possible. Rather, it is a part of itself that we have to reach. Work parentheses this 'process' as <in-between space> and pays attention to the movement that takes place in the transition to completion.

GOBI series




GOBI series
2021, ebonized and carved wood, various size
onyang awards winner 

            GOBI was used in Sarangbang during the Joseon Dynasty to insert scroll letters and documents. 
The GOBI is our own small furniture that does not exist anywhere in the East and West, revealing the existential attitude of our ancestors who listened even though it was a small use of everyday life. The margin of the crisis becomes a full space, capturing the words and spirit of the ancestors through emptying. We want to continue the value of this crisis to the present day. 
The GOBI series is a modern object series that reinterprets the essence of form and mental beauty of the margin to match today's time and space. The five types of margins that share a single design language meet different functions, such as vases, insense holders, and shelves. I hope that the laxity and generosity of our ancestors will be deeply related to today through the GOBI series, which captures the form of our lives with the freedom to fill.

            조선시대 사랑방에서 두루마리 편지와 문서를 꽂는 용도로 사용된 고비.
고비는 동서양 어디에도 존재하지 않는 우리만의 소가구로, 일상의 작은 쓰임에도 귀를 기울였던 선조들의 현존재적 태도를 드러낸다. 고비의 여백은 비움을 통해 선조들의 말과 정신을 담아내며 가득 찬 공간으로 자리한다. 이러한 고비의 가치를 현대로 이어오고자 한다.
고비 시리즈는 여백이 가진 형태적, 정신적 미의 본질을 오늘의 시간과 공간에 어울리도록 재해석한 현대적 오브제 시리즈이다. 하나의 디자인 언어를 공유하는 다섯가지 형태의 여백은 화병, 인센스홀더, 선반 등 각기 다른 기능을 충족한다. 채울 수 있는 여유로 우리 삶의 형태를 충만하게 담아내는 고비 시리즈를 통해 선조들의 느슨함과 넉넉함이 오늘에 깊이 관계하기를 바란다.



















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