Hwang Hae-sun (b. 1969) graduated from the Department of Sculpture at Seoul National University in 1992 and received her master’s degree from New York University in 1995. Her solo exhibitions include “I believe nothing. But I expect everything” at Insa Art Space in 2004; “The Story of a Garden” at POSCO Art Museum in 2006; “Window of Remembrances” at LEEHWAIK Gallery; “Still Life” at MD Gallery in Paris in 2010; and “What the West Wind Saw” at Gallery Simon in 2012. She has participated in various group exhibitions including the International Ceramic Biennale in 2007; “Flare: A Brand New Start in Art” at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea, currently MMCA in 2009; the 2011 Cheongju International Craft Biennale; and “VOLTA NY” in New York in 2013. She is the recipient of the JoongAng Fine Arts Prize in 1997; the Grand Prize from the Contest of the Young and Challengeable Artists held by Galerie Bhak in 1999; and Insa Art Space Contest in 2003. From the outset of her early work, Hwang Hae-sun has focused on the way art is communicated while presenting emotions called forth during her daily life and memories by utilizing ordinary items that do not require any explanation as subject matter. Hwang begins her projects by drawing memories taken from everyday life, as if keeping a diary. The images are small stories from her surroundings or fragments of her experiences. It is her main task to find a medium or material that can deliver these stories in the most effective manner; however, the finished works remain silent, rather than directly telling her stories, leading viewers to infer and complete the meaning on their own. Familiar objects we often associate with memory―a ring, a bucket, a mirror, a crystal, and glass―begin as one moment inside Hwang’s memory and bring up emotions from the very recesses of viewer’s minds. These objects, with associations of being clean and clear, glittering, susceptible or fragile, serve as implicit metaphors to reveal sensitive and delicate emotions, demonstrating themselves as a gentle and natural means of communication.