Artist Yuri Explores Life, Death and Connection in Solo Show 'Transparent Ring'
Creatrip Team
3 months ago
Seoul’s Hakgojae Gallery is hosting 31-year-old artist Yuri’s solo exhibition 'Transparent Ring' through the 20th, featuring about 50 new paintings and installations centered on the theme of connectivity. After experiencing multiple family and pet losses, Yuri reflects on the cycle of presence and absence by making book-like sculptures from carved wood and transparent resin, embedding dried flowers, beads from her late grandmother’s necklace, and personal drawings as memorial objects. Recurring motifs—linked rings of flowers, eyes (symbolizing opening and closing), and a red thread tied to her late cat—suggest ongoing bonds between past and present, life and death. Large works include 'Transparent Ring', where two flower clusters form a connecting loop, and 'Long-Tailed Book', an installation that reassembles a former 7m painting into a book with resin-encased miniature pieces. Curators say the show captures invisible networks of relationships and offers intimate rituals of consolation and continuity.
