Artist
Viviana Hayeong Jeon
Viviana Hayeong Jeon(전하영) is a South Korean artist based in London, whose practice explores vulnerability, fragmentation, and hybrid identity through tactile and material-based processes. Rooted in Eastern philosophy and feminist theory, her work engages with the emotional and ontological conditions of contemporary life.
Working across clay, glaze, silicone, fabric, and digital scanning, Jeon creates abstract forms that oscillate between the physical and the virtual. Her practice embraces instability and rupture as generative states, allowing emotional residue, memory, and perception to intersect. Through these layered material and digital translations, she develops a visual language that reflects the affective density and complexity of lived experience today.
Artworks
Digital Sculpture Frottage, 2024, Earthenware Ceramics, 151 x 48 x 19 cm overall dimensions
Digital Sculpture Frottage is a process-based practice that investigates how contemporary perception is shaped through the simultaneous experience of physical and virtual at the same time. Working across sculpture and expanded painting, the practice explores how touch and material transformation register emotional and temporal experience.
The project unfolds through a looping process in which hand-built forms and drawings are scanned, digitally reconfigured, and translated back into physical form. Scanning operates as a material process that compresses tactile surface and accumulated time into visual data.
These images are re-materialized through multiple materials, producing forms that retain both material memory and digital residue.
Digital Sculpture Frottage, 2025
Silicone on Earthenware Ceramics, 46 x 19 x 22 cm
While clay plays a central role in my practice as one of the earliest materials shaped by human hands, carrying pressure, time, and bodily memory, I deliberately extend my process beyond ceramics. Digital scanning, silicone, acrylic media, and other contemporary materials allow the work to move across different states of matter, perception, and temporality. By bringing together one of humanity’s oldest materials with contemporary technological and synthetic media, my practice reflects the conditions of living today, where
tactile experience, digital mediation, and material translation coexist.
Through repetition and transformation, Digital Sculpture Frottage proposes sculpture as a site where material, emotion, and contemporary modes of perception continuously intersect and are reconfigured.