Hyemin Kim

CERAMICS

Apr 23

BIO

Hyemin Kim is a Toronto and Seoul-based ceramic artist currently completing her studies in Craft and Design (Ceramics) at Sheridan College. Her work explores the body through material process, focusing on tension, imbalance, and unresolved states. Through ceramics, she investigates how form and surface register pressure and transformation, holding traces of persistence and remaining open to interpretation.

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CAPSTONE PROJECT

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This project explores the human body as a condition rather than a completed form.

The figures do not represent a specific narrative or emotional resolution. Instead, they remain held within forces shaped by weight, pressure, and endurance. Rather than depicting moments of collapse or recovery, the work focuses on what exists in between. The body appears neither expressive nor explanatory, but suspended, caught in a moment that has not yet resolved.

Clay as a medium plays a central role in this inquiry. Malleable during making yet hardened through firing, the material reflects the pull between vulnerability and permanence. Surface treatments are restrained, allowing traces of pressure, contact, and time to remain visible.

This project traces a sculptural practice that resists closure.

The work does not seek to complete a narrative, but to remain attentive to what persists unresolved.

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