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Studio SonSon

Studio SonSon is a Seoul-based multidisciplinary studio working across artist books, printed matter, exhibitions, and experimental forms.
City Texture
Hyunkyung Son, City Texture, Studio SonSon, 2026, © Hyunkyung Son

City Texture is an experimental zine in progress, produced through thermal printing on continuous paper so that the entire publication unfolds as one connected sequence. The project began while walking through the city and paying attention to my own anxious and unsettled emotional state. In hidden alleys and overlooked corners, I became drawn to damaged surfaces, layered traces, stains, misalignments, and rough textures that seemed to mirror those imperfect inner states. Rather than correcting or polishing them, the work attempts to reveal imperfection as it is—fragile, unresolved, and quietly present. It also opens up a question about the poster as a form: does a poster need a client, a message, or a fixed function in order to exist?

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Melting Book
Hyunkyung Son, Melting Book, Studio SonSon, 2025, © Hyunkyung Son

Melting Book reimagines the book as an object, not just a vessel of information. Handcrafted in ceramic, each piece carries the illusion of melting—familiar yet strange, solid yet fluid.
The glazes create unique textures and forms, while natural cracks and fragments are embraced as signs of process, not flaws. This reflects a quiet celebration of imperfection and the handmade.
The series questions the uniformity of printed books and invites reflection on memory, time, and material presence.
It embodies an experimental attitude—pushing beyond perfection, toward beauty born of unpredictability.

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Back In New York
Hyunkyung Son, Back In New York, Studio SonSon, 2024, © Hyunkyung Son

Back In New York is a retrospective photo-essay book based on photographs taken in New York in 2015. Revisiting these images, the artist reassembles fragments of the past like pieces of a puzzle.

What resurfaces are not fixed records, but vague and unstable impressions. Moments that were once real become distant, almost unreachable. Brief flashes of the city—once felt as emptiness—pass by, leaving only faint traces behind.

Seen from above, the book contains hidden text that unfolds as an autobiographical narrative, one that seems destined to vanish unless carefully discovered. Although the original photographs attest to moments that once existed, every image in this book has been transformed. The boundary between truth and fiction therefore remains unresolved. Memories continue to change: they mutate, distort, and slowly fade with time.

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