Yuri Jin

Bio

Yuri Jin is a jewelry artist from Korea. She received her BFA and MFA in Metal Art and Design from Hongik University. Working primarily with crochet, she builds thread-based forms that suggest organic growth and cyclical rhythms. Her work, which explores ideas of time, continuity, and transformation, has been shown at New York Jewelry Week and featured in galleries in Korea and across the United States.

Statement

I am drawn to the enduring and continuous values that have supported human life over time. To understand the present, we must look to the past, which inevitably leads us toward the future. This belief guides my choice of materials, often rooted in cultural history, and shapes the language of form that emerges through my work.

My practice relies on the slow and repetitive act of crochet, using only a single hook without mechanical aid. Through this process, thread and fiber accumulate into structures where lines overlap and surfaces unfold, revealing both organic forms and abstract images. Materials such as cotton, hemp, and hanji paper carry their own symbolic weight, and their contrasts of color and texture highlight themes of vitality, fragility, and continuity.

In this way, my work reflects the cycles of life and death, beginnings and endings, expansion and return. Each piece becomes a quiet record of these transitions, offering a space to sense how everyday moments gather and transform into something larger. I hope that through this perspective, we can approach life with greater awareness of its continuity and the value of each fleeting moment.

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