흑은백 黑銀白 : Gentle Resonance
Exhibition
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19 Jun 2025
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03 Jul 2025
Published: 11.06.2025

Silver is one of the most familiar materials for today’s craft artists. From the earliest stages of learning metalwork, silver is encountered as a primary medium—pliable, highly workable, and well-suited to exploring form and texture.
Yet this very familiarity can become a challenge, raising new questions for the maker: How can a material so familiar be seen, spoken of, and shaped in new ways?
Artist list
Heejoo Kim, Yeonmi Lee, Jongseok Lim, Hyesung Shin, Annie Sibert, Fumiki Taguchi
This exhibition begins with that question. 흑은백 黑銀白: Gentle Resonance is an attempt to revisit the age-old material of silver through six distinct techniques: forging, casting, filigree, ipsa, metal carving and electroforming. Each is a language of craft, handed down across centuries. But the artists in this exhibition do not merely inherit or replicate these languages—they reinterpret them through their own sculptural language. One material, six perspectives. Here, the artists explore the subtle tension and sensorial resonance that emerge from the differences in interpretation.
In this context, technique is not merely a means of forming shape. Forging is a physical act of hammering metal into form; electroforming is the invisible layering of metal through electric current. Ipsa (silver inlay) and filigree delicately negotiate the relationships between metals; metal carving leaves marks on the surface; and casting pours forth the potential of form and texture in liquid flow. These six distinct approaches to silver speak to the vast interpretive breadth the material continues to offer.
The exhibition title, Gentle Resonance, refers to the quiet but unmistakable echo that arises between material, technique, and the artist’s attitude. It is the way metal awakens beneath the fingertips, the moments when silver begins to speak in silence. The phrase 흑은백 (Black Silver White) speaks not only of contrast in color, but also of textures of perception—the spectrum of silver’s achromatic tones and the emotional density that resides within. Beyond the intensity of color or light, silver holds a lyrical depth and layered sensibility.
This act of revisiting the familiar seeks a balance between technique and sensitivity, revealing how silver, as a material, still has much to say. This exhibition listens closely to its quiet voice.
Opening hours: Tue – Sat 10:30 – 18:00
Opening Vernissage: 19 June 2025 16:00 – 19:00
Artist Talk: 21 June 2025, 15:00
The exhibition runs until 03 July 2025.
In this context, technique is not merely a means of forming shape. Forging is a physical act of hammering metal into form; electroforming is the invisible layering of metal through electric current. Ipsa (silver inlay) and filigree delicately negotiate the relationships between metals; metal carving leaves marks on the surface; and casting pours forth the potential of form and texture in liquid flow. These six distinct approaches to silver speak to the vast interpretive breadth the material continues to offer.
The exhibition title, Gentle Resonance, refers to the quiet but unmistakable echo that arises between material, technique, and the artist’s attitude. It is the way metal awakens beneath the fingertips, the moments when silver begins to speak in silence. The phrase 흑은백 (Black Silver White) speaks not only of contrast in color, but also of textures of perception—the spectrum of silver’s achromatic tones and the emotional density that resides within. Beyond the intensity of color or light, silver holds a lyrical depth and layered sensibility.
This act of revisiting the familiar seeks a balance between technique and sensitivity, revealing how silver, as a material, still has much to say. This exhibition listens closely to its quiet voice.
Opening hours: Tue – Sat 10:30 – 18:00
Opening Vernissage: 19 June 2025 16:00 – 19:00
Artist Talk: 21 June 2025, 15:00
The exhibition runs until 03 July 2025.
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