Pia Jaeyoon Kim

I am a South Korean artist currently based in Europe. My practice centers on soft sculpture and textile installation, primarily using wool and needle-felting techniques. Through slow, hand-driven processes, I explore themes of nomadic life, emotional memory, and the quiet gestures of care and connection.
Educated in textile design in both Korea and Japan, I bring together craft traditions with contemporary conceptual language. The softness of felt in my work is not only tactile but also symbolic—a political and emotional gesture that resists, holds, and speaks without words.
In my sculptural forms, I approach femininity not as a fixed identity, but as a fluid sensitivity: an openness to subtle emotion, a capacity to listen without sound. The wool forms I create offer space for reflection, empathy, and silent dialogue. I consider softness not as fragility, but as strength—a medium through which I search for connection in a fragmented world.