ART–OTH–YOU

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Spatial Construction

Material as breath

ART–OTH–YOU

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Material as breath

ART–OTH–YOU

Material as breath

Index Code:

ART–OTH–YOU

Orgin:

Seoul, Korea

Field Notes:

material as breath · gesture as void · paper as structure

Defining Moment:

Early 1960s — paper as breath; order clarified

Kwon Young-Woo

(

1926–2013

)

kwon young woo

Kwon built a world from punctured silence.

By tearing, creasing, and dyeing Korean mulberry paper, he allowed light to inhabit fiber.

His works balance control and yield, gesture and void.

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In his world, material itself meditates — paper breathing as form.

Structural Focus

Process as Form

The method of making defines the structure. Repetition, accumulation, or procedure becomes the visible logic of the work.

In Kwon Young-Woo’s work, this approach appears where repeated pressure structures paper as surface.

Position

Process as Form

The method of making defines the structure. Repetition, accumulation, or procedure becomes the visible logic of the work.

In Kwon Young-Woo’s work, this approach appears where repeated pressure structures paper as surface.

Constructed Surfaces

Surfaces are built through layering, joining, and controlled fabrication.

Systems of Clarity

Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.

Structure holds the work through rules, joins, and controlled relationships between parts.

Material behavior governs form through weight, resistance, and constraint.

Form operates as a site for material, perceptual, and conceptual inquiry.

Repetition and material restraint generate surface through duration and labor.

Observartory

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Structual Relations

The following practices are connected through shared structural decisions in form, material, and spatial logic.

Repetition as ritual

Pressure as form

In Dialogue

Gravity as devotion

Relation as structure