Youree Choi

Visual Communication (MA)
Woman wearing hand knit balaclava.
Hands on table markmaking on paper.
Hands on table markmaking on paper.
A collective workshop to experience namul in its various forms and create a new visual language for the untranslatable onomatopoeia surrounding it. The results from this workshop were developed into wooden flashcards for a child to play with.
Handmade and painted wooden toys
Handmade and painted wooden toys
Fascimiles of Korean condiments used to season namul were hand-turned and painted, with leaves made of my mother's old quilting scraps.
Book open to page reading "WTF is Namul???"
Book open to page reading "WTF is Namul???"
2-color risoprinted book documenting recipes from an 8-course, namul based dinner held over two evenings in Los Angeles, CA.
White knit jumper hanging from ceiling
White knit jumper hanging from ceiling
Hand knit white jumper and chainmaille on "Mommy Hands" washing glove.
Hands on table markmaking on paper.
Handmade and painted wooden toys
Book open to page reading "WTF is Namul???"
White knit jumper hanging from ceiling

About

Youree Choi is an artist and designer based between London (UK) and Los Angeles (US).

Her practice explores delight as resistance, and inquires about how embracing inconvenience can help liberate us from the pressures of an increasingly fast paced and tech-centric world.

Informed by her education in nutritional science and time spent living abroad, she is particularly drawn to food and how it can be a universally digestible symbol of health, love, and justice.

She wants you to eat well—whatever that means for you—and to feed the people around you well, too.

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This year, her research centered around an exploration of heirlooms.

mise/unmise is a body of work that inquires how handicraft—its processes and outcomes—can be used to do the delicate work of cultural and generational reconciliation, specifically for diasporic communities. A collection of speculative heirlooms has been made with a range of materials varying in their softness, in hopes of dignifying the inheritances which are immaterial, yet no lesser in value than fine gold or silver.

This includes the study of namul as a container for conversations about Korean history, language, and culture. Namul is namul—it refuses to be translated or put into a box, and it is in itself a precious heirloom and storyteller of our heritage.

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