Summer 26 : kim sang lan
KIM Sanglan perpetuates the tradition and techniques, while giving to them a new application, from her installation in high scale with fishing net, thread of iron and transparent textile where she reorganizes the space and brings a poetic dimension unexpected and clear, from her work on paper like “White magic, black magic” rich in symbols and suggestivity, or from her superb works of scenography, for the special exhibitions, at the National Museum of Asian art–Guimet. Each time, Kim Sanglan testifies to a great creativity. She is an artist who has that sense of experimentation and shows it in each of her creations, and that in all the domains where she is involved, a sense of the genuine Korean aesthetic with an outstanding sense of innovation, guided each time by a taste very sure.
see kim sang lan work in ekjo s store untill end july 2026
KIM MYOUNG NAM
Kim Myoung Nam, house friend, is a Korean artist whose sensitive and natural universe speaks to EKJO's sensibilities in an intimate way. Her art, both fragile and powerful, inevitably finds its place at the centre of our Paris boutique, her pieces for each collection a poetic complement to our vision.
A painter and ceramist, Kim constructs forms that seem to emerge from silence - vases, sculptures, reinvented found objects - somewhere between abstraction and tradition. Her ceramics, with their imperfect lines and yielding texture, present the beauty of the handmade gesture, and her paintings, full of nuance and vibration, offer an intimate dialogue with the material.
Available in a variety of forms in the boutique, her creations fill the room with softness and personality. They encourage us to pause, to see things from a different angle, to feel the energy of the handmade and the soul breathed into each garment.
Through this collaboration, EKJO pays tribute not only to the art of dressing, but also to the art of living - an art that leaves room for the sensitive, the gestural, the human.
myoungnam.kim@gmail.com
SEBASTIEN MEHAL
Hublot Extrême-Orient at EKJO
In our Paris boutique, a big round painting by artist Sébastien Mehal instantly catches the eye. This artwork, with its bright colors and geometric forms, adds a new dynamic to our store, creating a harmonious dialogue between art and fashion.
Martinican artist Sébastien Méhal tackles urbanity, cross-fertilisation and collective memory in his work. A qualified architect and audiovisual producer, he has developed a unique artistic trajectory, blending painting, computer graphics and screen printing. His paintings, often executed on circular supports, question notions of borders, displacement and identity in a constantly mutating world.
The artwork exhibited at EKJO, circular in shape and bright in color, is reminiscent of the "tondi" near and dear to the artist's heart, symbols of a world without fixed angles or points of reference. It reveals the complexity of our contemporary societies, yet celebrates the diversity and harmony that is possible.
By embracing this immense work in our boutique, EKJO is once again confirming its commitment to contemporary art and its desire to create spaces where creativity can be expressed in all its forms with total freedom. This meeting with Sébastien Mehal enriches our universe, offering our clients a complete aesthetic experience, where fashion and art meet and resonate with each other.
KIM SUN MI
Before finding her current artistic language, Sun Mi Kim experimented with performance, photography and installation art in order to tackle the themes that concern her at the deepest level: relationships between beings, space and separation, and the hidden dimensions of reality. At the fingertips of the artist, for whom art is an “enlarged awareness of the world”, a “reserve
of plastically vibrant energies” materialises, and we, the viewers, are led into a “face to face construction” that challenges us to question our own identity, the better to open up to others by establishing links with them.
To produce a painting, Sunmi Kim makes the wooden frames herself, then applies sa-
bles and minerals to them. She superimposes them from the roughest to the softest, layer after layer, incorporating
each layer, up to forty microscopic levels. Through this superimposition, the
painted motif is absorbed and deeply impregnated between the different layers. The threads she inserts into the
canvas are arranged in such a way as to reveal or indicate a certain topography of space, giving
the monochrome surface an extra dimension.
cho mi jin
Min-Ji Cho is a Korean artist whose practice, where photography, drawing, writing and performance converge, provokes the assumptions of space, perception and memory. She was educated in visual arts and semiology and a practice is developed by her rich in the void — not absence but resonance.
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She does more than just show. She speaks. She works at the in-between, at the margins, at the intersections. His paintings do not try to capture the real, but let it appear in what is most transitory and permanent.
In the foyer of our store, his photographs present themselves as a threshold: a call to decelerate, to be in space differently, to peer closely at what is around us. In this site of transition, they inscribe a connection between the intimate and the public, the sensitive and the visible.