Jungil Hong

Artist Statement

I work with textiles, collage, and images to understand how memory shapes and reshapes a life. Much of my practice involves rebuilding – layering materials and fragments to follow what is fading, returning, or becoming something new. My new project is shaped by my mother’s shifting memory – how remembering obscures and reveals, and how reconstruction might offer steadiness as things change.

Dinner Table is a Korean low dining table composed of prototypes and collected objects from my life and practice, including work made by my mother. Together they form a material lexicon – a map of processes, memories, and recurring forms that anchor my broader practice.

Bio

Jungil Hong (b. Seoul, Korea) is a Providence-based multidisciplinary artist and founder of Namu Future. She works across textiles, collage, printmaking, and photography, using material processes to consider how personal histories are formed and reinterpreted over time. Her upcoming project engages her mother’s experience with memory loss, extending her focus on how images and materials record change. Hong’s work has been shown nationally, and she continues to develop multidisciplinary projects grounded in material inquiry and narrative reflection.


https://www.jungilhongstudio.com