Enhye Yoo

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Making care visible through the material language of clay and glass.

Eunhye Yoo is an artist whose work examines the emotional and invisible labor embedded in everyday caregiving. Through ceramics and glass, she transforms domestic gestures—repetitive tasks, accumulated fatigue, fleeting joy, and quiet disappointment—into tangible forms that hold the residue of lived experience.

Her flowing glazes and attached objects become traces of layered emotions, revealing how care is never linear nor purely sweet. Instead, it is mixed, complex, and often uncomfortable—much like the damp rubber gloves that cling stubbornly to the hand. Yoo interrogates the cultural expectations that bind caregiving to identity, particularly within the role of “mother,” and questions why such labor is assumed to be natural or effortless.

In her glass works, transparency and opacity become conceptual tools. The glass exposes; the clay conceals. Their tension mirrors the duality of care—what is shown publicly and what is endured privately. Through this material dialogue, viewers are invited to reflect on their own relationships with labor, care, and emotional visibility.

Yoo’s practice transforms mundane containers, domestic tools, and intimate gestures into sculptural meditations on the weight and warmth of care. Her works give form to what is often overlooked, urging us to witness, acknowledge, and rethink the stories embedded in the everyday.