The artistic practice follows a simple principle: minimal guidance and maximum freedom. Materials retain their inherent qualities, while the works remain open to the unexpected. Literature and conceptual art converge in installations that become complete only through people. Exchange itself becomes a material.
Origin: The starting point of her work is the loss of her parents and the subsequent intercountry adoption. Neither name nor language survived — not even "the soup." Born in South Korea and raised in southern Germany, the artist has pursued a single question since childhood: What is the meaning of life?
Focus & Guidance: She learned to direct attention and practice self-direction through years of work in visual communication and marketing, an intensive engagement with karate and iaidō, and long-term choir conducting.
Failure as Possibility: Her approach to productive failure and to the unpredictable developed through building a transformative theater in New York (Galli Theater New York).
Reduction, Precision, and Time: Her understanding of reduction and precision deepened while working as a private sushi chef in the international high-end sector, including in Beverly Hills, the Hamptons, and at the Cannes Film Festival. A phrase from her sushi mentor has stayed with her ever since: "Don't speed up. Speed comes by time, and time comes by itself." This is where a conscious relationship with time first began to take root.
Social Grounding: Her work as a coach in a socially engaged creative project in Hamburg brought together art, theater, culinary practice, writing, and support for people in precarious life situations.
Pricing: From existential uncertainty to significant economic freedom, the works explore what forms of exchange become possible under these conditions. Pricing thus becomes part of the artistic process, creating concrete invitations to act.
Artistic Practice: Since 2024, she has been fully focused on this interdisciplinary practice and the development of ikono.
