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SaeRi is based in Cardiff and from South Korea. Most of her work is done with the throwing technique, mainly with porcelain. She demonstrates re-creating her style by learning and accepting the traditional form. She works on overcoming or facing trauma by sublimating it into artwork.
GALLERY OF WORK
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Pooping good Child :
Size – 24×24×28 cm
Material – Porcelain (Unglazed, Polished)
price – £800
2022 My trauma originated from the environmental and cultural background surrounding me. I started destroying representative Korean traditional ceramics to escape my trauma and oppression. The Moon jar is a work of old masters. By detonating the beautiful pottery, I stepped forward and began to communicate with the world. While bursting them, I needed a way to escape the oppression without pretence: to use fire that I could not control destroying.
However, it was strangely double-minded. At the same time, I feel like I have to think about myself before others, and I want to remain a good person. Destroying one side is an effort and an act to overcome oppression; the other that maintains its form is the desire to stay a good child. The faint flower seen through the cracks shows the hope that rises inside me.
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Crooked Good Child :
Size – 15×15×18 cm
Material – Porcelain (Unglazed, Polished)
price – £600
2022The technique of making traditional moon jars during the Joseon Dynasty was combining two hemispherical shapes with the upper and lower parts to create a large, round Moon jar, which was the most suitable method because there was no electric wheel at that time. Also, the plasticity of clay was not as dense as it is now. It can be further emphasised that the act of bursting is a process of overcoming trauma and escaping oppression by bursting a jar, which is traditionally made but horizontally divided into two pieces again.
Breaking one beautiful Moon jar into two pieces again corresponds to my mind being perverse in my duality. But even in that split Moon jar, there are still irises, and It can be seen that there is always hope to be happy inside me.
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Full of hope :
Size – 18×18×23 cm
Material – Porcelain (Unglazed)
price – £800
2022The meaning of Iris is hope. When the flower is finally covered, it depicts a moment filled with hope. It is a hope for a moment that I've already achieved or haven't come to yet. I want to be a subversive artist because I have a mind to love Korea. Therefore, I can talk to the world little by little and watch it change. Gently but powerful, beautiful but destructive. I believe that art can communicate with the world. There is a saying, "Artists are lonely," but in the new era, I think young masters should become artists who communicate with the world and tell people their stories through their works. Making pottery is the happiest means for me, who is timid, to overcome my good child syndrome and communicate with the world.
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Full of hope(wall hanging) :
Size – 21×21×21 cm
Material – Porcelain (Unglazed)
price – £800
2023
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Popping good child with fadeless hope :
Size – 8.5×8.5×19.5 cm
Material – Porcelain (Unglazed)
price – £150
2023
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Popping good child with fadeless hope(series) :
Total size – 8x20x10 cm
Material – Porcelain (Unglazed, Polished)
price – £150ea
2023
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Full of hope with little dirt :
Size – 18x18x23 cm<br />
Material – Porcelain (Unglazed)<br />
price – £600<br />
2022
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Crooked Good Child :
Total size – 40x40x15 cm
Material – Porcelain (Unglazed, Polished)
price – £600
2022
