Glaze expert / Glaze sculptor
Hwajeong Yeo's work traces back to the origins of 'Art', from the Greek 'Techne' meaning skill or craft, and the Latin 'Ars', denoting skilled technique. Drawing from her background as a researcher in industrial glaze in Korea, she transforms industrial glaze into independent sculptures, thereby converting glaze into art. Traditionally used as a secondary material, glaze in her studio undergoes a process of transformation into standalone sculptures based on the data accumulated in her laboratory.
These glaze pieces explore various structures through the crystals formed during firing, embodying both order and disorder, and regular and irregular forms. Glistening, Sea sparkling, interweaving, foliating, and sinuating, the glaze pieces establish a systematic order in themselves. Through these meticulously crafted glaze sculptures, Hwajeong Yeo reveals the diverse structures that emerge from the interplay of orderㅖ and disorder, and regularity and irregularity.