Jayi Kim
Artist’s Catalogue
김자이
Jayi Kim
2024, 170*245mm, 100p
We produced a catalog that traces the past ten years of artist Jayi Kim’s practice, which has consistently centered on the themes of nature and rest. At the heart of the work lies the idea of “rest,” which we hoped to convey in a way that feels light and gentle rather than heavy. The cover draws inspiration from the artist’s participatory project Rest Exchange Project, in which the artist and audience share moments of rest with one another. Expanding on this concept, real seeds were incorporated into the catalog’s cover and table of contents. The inner pages were designed to metaphorically reveal how the artist’s practice, beginning with rest, gradually expands into ecological reflections. By varying the textures and colors of the paper, we created layers that visually represent the temporal flow and transformation of the work, while also striving to use eco-friendly materials whenever possible. The images and the artist’s notes follow their own independent rhythms yet are organically intertwined, allowing readers to move through the catalog naturally and engage with it at their own pace.
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Reconstructing Sequences
Exhibition Catalog Design
국립아시아문화전당
ACC
2024, 225*300*19.5mm,
352p, PUR, 오타바인딩
The catalogue’s format was designed in a large size to reflect the grand scale of the exhibition and artworks, and the paper was chosen for its matte texture and faded quality, emphasizing traces of time and materiality. The front and back endpapers faintly depict the current and past landscapes of the Jeonnam Provincial Office and National Asian Culture Center(ACC), enclosed by temporary construction fences. This visually expresses the temporal and spatial meaning of the intersection between past and present. The artwork overview pages were arranged to highlight the interconnections between works, reflecting the concept of wayfinding. For the introduction of each artist’s works, colored paper was inserted between spreads, metaphorically suggesting connection and reconfiguration.
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Listening for the Voice of “TEUM”
Exhibition Catalog Design
국립아시아문화전당
ACC
2023, 150*225mm, 228p, PUR
The exhibition catalog was designed to visually express the symbolism of the “gap” by wrapping it in thin white kraft paper(50g). The cover typography is subtly embedded within the texture, evoking the impression of peeking into a gap. The artist notes also employ the same paper and spot-color printing, recalling the fleeting passage of a narrow opening. For each artist’s section, different varieties of textured Lesseig paper were used to evoke the tactile qualities of fabric and architectural board. Through this selection of papers, the catalog is intended to transform the act of engaging with the exhibition into an indirect, tactile experience on the printed page.
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Crossing the Line: Our Bodies,
Embedded with Others
Exhibition Design
국립아시아문화전당
ACC
2025.4.17-6.29
In 2025, National Asia Culture Center (ACC) celebrated its 10th anniversary with the thematic exhibition Crossing the Line: Our Bodies, Embedded with Others, dedicated to enhancing accessibility. This barrier-free exhibition was designed to improve access to cultural and artistic creation and enjoyment for people with disabilities, while also seeking to expand the concept of “barrier-free” beyond assistive tools or devices into a broader, interdisciplinary content genre. (…) More than an initiative to improve accessibility for people with disabilities, this exhibition can be seen as an artistic experiment and proposal to create a shared sensory space that welcomes others and dissolves the boundaries of perception, reminding us that all human beings are relational in nature. — Excerpt from Crossing the Line: Our Bodies, Embedded with Others (2025), “Curatorial Statement,” by Park Ye-won, Curator, National Asian Culture Center
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Reconstructing Sequences
Exhibition Design
국립아시아문화전당
ACC
2024.10.15-11.24
Reconstructing Sequences is an outdoor exhibition that focuses on the locality and historical context of Gwangju, where the National Asian Culture Center(ACC) is situated. It reinterprets the transformations from Gwangju Eupseong Fortress, through the Jeonnam Provincial Office, to today’s ACC under the theme of “memories and events accumulated in a place.” The exhibition poster symbolically expresses the motifs of “site,” “memory,” and “event” by using construction debris from the Jeonnam Provincial Office as its main graphic element. Concrete fragments collected during the demolition process were photographed, reprocessed, and placed prominently on the poster, beneath which a faint depiction of the current landscape—enclosed by temporary construction fences—can be seen. Printed in overlapping layers using the silkscreen technique, the poster indirectly reveals the memories and events accumulated within the site.
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Listening for the Voice of “TEUM”
Exhibition Design
국립아시아문화전당
ACC
2023.09-12.31
The ACC carried out an open call under the theme of “teum” in February 2023, through which artists Eunjune Lee and Jiwon Yu were selected to be featured in the exhibition.
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