Kim Young-jun 'In Search of Lost Light'

Kim Young-jun, an artist who carries the future of Korean mother-of-pearl (najeon) art, has arrived at this moment through countless trials and unrelenting effort. Building on a thousand-year lineage of najeon lacquerware since the Three Kingdoms period, he has pursued new color sensibilities and diversity, forming a singular creative world — moving najeon from furniture craft into an artistic medium of spatial expression.