ArtAsiaPacific Issue 143 (May/Jun 2025)

  • Su-Mei Tse
  • Angela Goh
  • Bruno Zhu
  • Kei Imazu
  • Greg Ito
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Yeesookyung: Piecing It Together

Piecing together discarded shards of porcelain, and marking joins and bare edges with lines of gold leaf, Korean artist Yeesookyung creates new shapes, often softly curved and anthropomorphic, occasionally jagged and alien. Her ceramic practice, which started with the “Translated Vases” series in 2006, has proved therapeutic for the artist, and the resulting works are profoundly, undeniably beautiful.