Seulgi Kwon

Jewelry is usually static, but this piece feels alive. Its translucent sacs swell like suspended droplets, while vivid magenta and violet tendrils twist and curl as if responding to an unseen force. There is tension in its form, a delicate balance between movement and stillness, softness and structure, fragility and resilience.

Seulgi Kwon’s “Midnight Sun” brooch is crafted from silicone, pigment, thread, and plastic, materials that resist traditional expectations of jewelry. At first, the piece recalls deep-sea flora or coral formations, life that exists on the edges of perception. But there is something intimate here as well, something bodily. The fine wire veins stretching over the translucent surfaces resemble embryonic structures, forms in a constant state of emergence.

Materiality plays a critical role in this transformation. Silicone, often associated with industrial use, takes on an organic presence, mimicking the delicate diffusion of light through glass or the sheen of wet skin. The contrast between rigid and pliable, artificial and natural, is at the core of Kwon’s work. It challenges the historical role of jewelry as a static symbol of status and instead frames it as a site of transformation. Midnight Sun does not simply exist on the body—it integrates with it, blurring the boundaries between object and organism, between ornamentation and something more intimate, more alive.