DAYE KIM
This relationship is
»This Relationship Is" creates rings that must be worn by multiple people at the same time. The starting point is a 16th-century painting of one sister holding the other's breast – both tender and possessive. I transfer this image into parametric software and distort it to the point where the shape becomes barely recognizable. Some rings connect two fingers, others four hands. When you wear them, your movement depends on those connected to you. The pieces are cast in silver and bronze, some are gold-plated, others contain resin that can crack. The metal endures, the resin breaks. The process of making mirrors the workings of the family: a gesture from centuries ago becomes digital information and then returns as physical metal. The substance changes shape, but the tension is not resolved.
Material
Sterling silver, transparent epoxy resin
Technique
3D printing, hand-made, airbrush painting
DAYE KIM, South Korea/United Kingdom
Daye Kim is a Korean jewelry artist based between Seoul and London, exploring how physical materials carry invisible relationships. During her MA at the Royal College of Art (2024), she developed her jewelry collection "This Relationship Is", consisting of pieces intended to be worn simultaneously by multiple people, in which siblings negotiate a shared space through connected metal forms. Combining hand-forged metalwork and digital fabrication, she explores how different processes alter what materials communicate. Her work reimagines jewelry as something that exists between bodies, not just on them. Her work was recently exhibited at Plattform-Schmuckkunst in Graz, Austria. She was a finalist in SCHMUCK 2024, and has exhibited internationally, including at Design-Nation, Munich Jewellery Week, and Blackdot Gallery in London.
Website
https://www.dayekim.uk/
Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/_dd___k/
