‘Everything you touch changes you’
‘The only lasting truth is change’
Octavia Butler quotes, artist’s maxim
A painter for several years, Berlin-based Korean artist Coco Sung has turned her attention to the creation of contemporary jewellery, a wearable, tactile and intimate work of art. The dialogue between the object – the artist – the wearer and the viewer, the establishing communication, motivates and stimulates Sung’s practice. Through the process of assemblage and collage, she imbues her creations with magical qualities and power. After sketching, she builds and transforms the materials and elements she chooses according to her project and inspiration, to reflect her preoccupations. With removable or articulated parts, her vibrantly coloured jewellery comes to life in a staging that both amazes and questions.
In 2004, after studying painting in Ulsan, South Korea, she decided to enroll at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in La Halle sur Saale, Germany, with Daniel Kruger. She obtained her master’s degree in 2014, having in the meantime spent two years at Tokyo University of Fine Arts studying music and contemporary jewellery design. Her work has been seen in numerous international exhibitions and is included in prestigious private and public collections.
Discover her jewellery during the duo exhibition with Silvie Altschuler from September 2 – 23, 2023
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