From Wearable Clothes to Sculptural Art: The Fashion Art of Geum Ki-sook
Creatrip Team
3 months ago
A special donation exhibition, "Dancing, Dreaming, Enlightening," featuring 55 works (56 pieces) by fashion-artist Geum Ki-sook runs at the Seoul Museum of Craft until March 15. Known for pioneering "fashion art" in Korea, Geum transformed clothing into sculptural artworks using wire, beads, thin silk (nobang), sequins and recycled materials. Highlights include the floating, light-catching piece "Baekmae" inspired by plum blossoms and the pink "Yeonhwa Dress," which traces the unfolding of a lotus through color. Geum, who directed costumes for the 2018 PyeongChang Olympic ceremonies (notably the "snowflake fairy" outfits), donated roughly 1.31 billion won worth of work to the museum to preserve her practice and inspire visitors. The exhibition showcases modern reinterpretations of hanbok (traditional Korean dress) — including jeogori and wonsam — expressed as graceful wire forms that emphasize curve and negative space, illustrating her role in blurring boundaries between fashion, craft, and art.
