Hyeongji Ju 주형지
주형지(b.2001)는 늘 가까이 있지만 눈에 잘 띄지 않는 작고 느린 존재들을 모아 하나의 장면으로 엮는 감각을 조각으로 확장하고 있다. 흙, 잡초, 야생동물 등 비인간 존재에 대한 응시와 더불어, 지속 가능한 공동체와 공공의 미적 실천에 대한 관심을 바탕으로 작업을 전개한다. 도시와 주변부를 가로지르며 수집한 일상의 파편들, 현장에서 마주친 감각들을 중심으로 조각·기록·워크숍·아카이브 리서치 등의 형식을 넘나들며 장기적인 프로젝트를 실천하고자 한다. 지속 가능한 공공 조각의 가능성을 탐색하며, 소멸과 순환, 타자와의 공존에 대한 사유를 작업의 축으로 삼고 있다. 이러한 태도는 예술이 특정한 대상이나 계층에 국한되지 않고 누구나 마주할 수 있는 공공의 감각으로 확장되길 바라는 바람에서 비롯되며, 느리고 미약한 것들의 생명력을 끌어올리는 방식으로 사회적·생태적 상상력을 실천하고자 한다.

주요 기획전으로는《다시! 내가 좋아하는 만들기》(서울대학교 우석갤러리, 서울, 2025), 《중간에서 만나 Meeting the Halfway》(이화아트센터, 서울, 2024), 《따뜻한 손, 시원한 바람》(온수공간, 서울, 2024)  등이 있으며, 서울대학교 조형연구소 후원 전시 공모(2025),  DoLUCK09(보안1942, 서울, 2024), ChunMan Art for young (월간 퍼블릭 아트, 2023), 충북문화재단 청년예술지원사업(2025)에 선정된 바 있다.


Hyeongji Ju (b. 2001) expands her sensitivity for weaving together small and slow beings—those that exist close by yet are easily overlooked—into sculptural forms.
Her practice is grounded in a sustained gaze toward non-human entities such as soil, weeds, and wild animals, and is driven by a commitment to sustainable communities and aesthetic practices in public spaces. Traversing urban and peripheral landscapes, she collects fragments of everyday life and encounters from the field, developing long-term projects through sculpture, documentation, workshops, and archival research. Her work explores the potential of sustainable public sculpture, centering on ideas of disappearance, cycles, and coexistence with the other. This approach stems from a belief that art should not be confined to specific audiences or groups, but rather extend into a public sensibility accessible to all. Through uplifting the vitality of the slow and the fragile, she seeks to activate both social and ecological imagination.

She has participated in major exhibitions such as Again! Making What I Love (Woosuk Gallery, Seoul National University, Seoul, 2025), Meeting the Halfway (Ewha Art Center, Seoul, 2024), and Warm Hands, Cool Breeze (Onsu-gonggan, Seoul, 2024). Her work has been selected for the Seoul National University Sculpture Research Institute Exhibition Program (2025), DoLUCK09 (BOAN1942, Seoul, 2024), ChunMan Art for young (Monthly Public Art, 2023), and the 2025 Young Artist Support Program by the Chungbuk Cultural Foundation.





 

01 Drawing Project (2023~Ongoing)

<Drawing Project 2023~> was initiated to contemplate the finite time shared with those close to the artist, such as her grandmother who raised her and her deaf elderly dog. This project involves drawing the faces of strangers encountered by chance on the street and exchanging portraits with them.(...) 

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02 Project: Growing Weeds

Weeds growing in the soil are often considered "trash" in the context of farming and are frequently uprooted. <Project: Growing Weeds> (2023) involves cultivating weeds brought from a farm in Hongseong County, Chungcheongnam-do, approximately 120 kilometers from Seoul, (...)

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03 Forest

Watering plants is a natural behavior akin to natural participation and invoking a forgotten sense of rural life within the city. <Forest> (2023) is a form of "weed gardening" created from discarded materials found nearby. (...)

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04 Finding Four-Leaf Clover

The process of searching and observing in a field is like a task with no immediate reward, similar to finding a four-leaf clover among the clover patches. This unfolds as an engagement of eye-level interaction within the space of participation, positioning the viewer as an active observer. (...)
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05 Gimbap Play

<Gimbap Play> (2023) is a participatory installation work based on hazy childhood memories of playing with siblings by rolling up blankets. This work welcomes visitors, fostering mutual eye contact and evoking the concept of the family as the first social community.(...)

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