Vessel-Scape & Materiality

Flex Point, Northing Space & Entrée, Bergen, Norway
Aug-Sept, 2023

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Lydia SooJin Park (KR) is a ceramist from South Korea. She came to Oslo to pursue her studies with the love of nature. She has developed a new perspective towards her artistic practice and personal philosophy, while finding the originality of an object or a phenomenon or nature from everyday life. Her value on memories and emotion from all situations are the driving force in her practice. She holds a BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a MFA at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts.

Lydia, as a ceramist, has a deep contemplation on the genre of ceramics and its main component - clay. Through clay and ceramics, she approaches diverse subjects, including comparisons between Western and Eastern culture, traditionalism and modernism, 2D flatness and 3D spatiality, and practicality and impracticality. People live in an ever-changing time and space in which they experience various emotions. She intends to capture the fleeting sentiments and express them in abstract forms with the medium of clay. In this selection, she is to present works that have been made with wood, different kind of paints, glass, and ceramics in order to deliver her thoughts on the tradition and future of ceramics.`