RETHINKING BLUE AND WHITE
Stand E6 (East Wing)
Lloyd Choi Gallery presents contemporary Korean ceramic artists who rethink blue and white beyond inherited decorative conventions. Rather than reproducing historic ideals shaped by early encounters with East Asian porcelain, the artists use blue and white as a medium for contemporary experimentation.
Raw surfaces, visible making, and moments of incompletion replace refinement and symmetry, inviting a renewed understanding of how this tradition continues to evolve through material, process, and artistic voice.
ARTISTS
LEE JUNGSUK
The gallery will present Lee Jungsuk and his new Fragile series for the first time in the UK.
Working with blue and white pottery, Lee disrupts convention by using water rather than fire to deconstruct form. Through deliberate erosion, softened cobalt traces recall excavated objects, while repurposed blue label stickers blur the boundary between contemporary work and historical relic.
Fragile celebrates vulnerability, recreating a sense of fading memory that carries emotional value and invites reflection on how meaning and value are constructed.
CHOI BORAM
In her Blue Jar series, Choi Boram has forged a contemporary language distinct from the simplicity and refinement long associated with Korean ceramics. Hand-built in coarse clay, her forms are covered with thousands of drawn cobalt lines and patterns, then fired unglazed. The surfaces remain deliberately raw and unfinished, redefining tradition through personal expression.
KWAK HYEYOUNG
Kwak Hyeyoung creates abstract blue and white ceramic wall panels using rain as a collaborator. Allowing natural forces to shape cobalt-pigmented porcelain works, her practice unfolds as a meditative exploration of impermanence, where nature becomes an active participant in the making process.
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