KYOTOOOOOOO 2026
10月24（土）〜11月1日（日）
装身具を起点に、身体・社会・文化・歴史をつなぐアーティストコレクティブ。
展覧会、シンポジウム、コレクション支援、ジュエリーウィーク等のプロジェクトを通して、日本発の新しいジュエリー文化と芸術表現を切り拓いています
SILENT SEASONS-WHISPERING NATURE
In conversation with nature through artistic foam and form
Season change unfolds as a quiet conversation with the living world. This exhibition gathers art in foam and form that follow nature’s subtle passage through bloom, radiance, decline, stillness, and return. In the delicate opening of a spring flower, little lamb, the saturated green of summer, an autumn leaf surrendering its colour, moss or the pale clarity of winter light, each season carries its own way of measuring time. The artists translate these fleeting impressions into works to be worn: small landscapes of metal, stone, pigment, fibre, and found in organic forms, held close to us. These intimate works invite us to linger with what is changing, and to find in nature’s continual transformation not only transience, but a quiet and enduring promise of renewal.
This autumn exhibition in Japan brings together five artists from South Korea, Taiwan, and China under the evocative theme “Silent Seasons, Whispering Nature.” Their diverse practices engage with the subtle rhythms of the natural world, where landscapes, changing seasons, and quiet moments become spaces for reflection and memory. Through painting, sculpture, installation, and other forms, the artists explore the delicate relationship between human experience and the environments that surround us. Together, their works create a contemplative dialogue across borders, revealing how nature can hold traces of history, identity, and transformation.
MEET THE ARTISTS
Heng Lee (Taiwan)
Lee is based in Kaohsiung, graduated from the Graduate Institute of Applied Arts at Taiwan National University of the Arts, specialising in metal smithing and jewellery. Currently, he is the co-founder of "PIN studio" and the director of "Heng Lee Jewellery. He has collaborated with the gallery since 2014. He employs various materials, combining innovative technology with traditional craftsmanship to create unique jewellery pieces with a distinct contemporary vocabulary and style. Since graduating from graduate school, he has actively participated in international jewellery competitions, exhibitions, and fairs. His works have been exhibited in over ten countries, including the United States, the Netherlands, Croatia, Italy, France, Germany, Spain, Lithuania, the United Kingdom, Austria, Latvia, and South Korea. His works have repeatedly received recognition in international competitions in the Netherlands, Germany, and Spain, and have been collected by the Schmuckmuseum in Pforzheim, Germany, and the Museo degli Argenti in Florence, Italy.
Junying Ren (China)
Inspired by observations of nature and everyday life Junying Ren connects plant forms with human stories, combining the poetry of nature with the quiet beauty of Eastern aesthetics. Rusting iron represents the passage of time, while carved silver holds
memories and symbolizes a pure spiritual ideal. By contrasting these two materials and their textures, I bring the passing of time and fleeting beauty into the same space expressing the contrast between the impermanence of the material world and the lasting nature of the spirit. Through wearing and touch, the work invites viewers to feel the traces of emotion, memory, and life that are often unnoticed but always present.
Namkyung Lee (South Korea)
studied Jewellery design at Kookmin University’s Graduate School
of Design. and have won various awards in Asia and Europe. Her works can be interpretant as images of places can be interpreted variously because they are able to remain distinct depending on contextualising temporalities, events, emotions, and memories. This is reflected visually and conceptually in the choice of materials and the development of forms. These processes can be understood as a way of revealing the paradox in which photographic images form the narrative of the work while simultaneously allowing ‘chance’ and ‘ambiguity’ to coexist within it.
Yeseul Seo (South Korea)
By closely observing animals and plants, the artist explores questions of life
and coexistence. Setting aside accumulated knowledge, she uncovers the
quiet truths within nature's cycles. Balancing figurative wool sculptures with
abstract forms, her work weaves a language of care—rooted in observation—
toward harmony between humans and all living beings.
Huiyu Chiu (Taiwan)
Huiyu Chiu's art practice moves between contemporary jewellery and the language of traditional East Asian painting. Trained in fine art before specialising in contemporary jewellery, she brings together a painterly sensibility with the material awareness and
craftsmanship of metal smithing. Working with metal alongside silk, ink, and mineral pigments, she approaches her work as a slow process, developing what she describes as
“growing images” in which forms gradually emerge through layered processes and the accumulation of material and time. The Still Life series reflects a quiet paradox between stillness and living presence: the image appears quiet and still, yet continues to grow. Through repeated gestures and subtle shifts across the surface, the works echo the gentle rhythms of growth, transformation, and renewal found in the natural world.