Journal
05.05.25
Kim Myoung Nam
Page Blanche at EKJO
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
12.01.25
Sébastien 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.
INSTAGRAM: sebastienmehal
25.05.25
Mi Jin Cho
Her art at EKJO
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.
With the Korean "mountain-water" landscape school of tradition (산수화, sansuhwa) on her mind, Min-Ji Cho imbues her photographs with suspended temporality. In his photos, the eye lingers over almost subliminal particulars: a line of light upon a wall, a shadow of action, an expanse of abandoned architecture. They are mute narratives, wherein every presence seems to be in itself, unrelated to anecdote.
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.
chomijin@hotmail.com
31.05.25
Olijay
Feather at Ekjo
Olijay is a French plumassier whose work lies at the intersection of instinct, ancestral gesture, and material precision. Since 2007, he has developed a singular approach to feather art, where each creation becomes an act of silent storytelling.
His encounter with feathers was not planned — it was intuitive. Drawn by their paradoxical nature, both delicate and indomitable, Olijay began to see in them not mere decoration, but a vocabulary: one that speaks of elevation, memory, and protection. Every feather holds a past; every arrangement, a potential ritual.
Educated by travel and apprenticeship rather than institution, he learned to listen to the materials — how they shift under light, how they respond to breath, how they demand patience. His atelier is less a workshop than a space of attention, where each gesture is deliberate, each silence part of the process.
Within EKJO, Olijay’s feathered pieces find a natural home. Worn on the body, they are not accessories but extensions — of presence, attitude, and poise. They draw from tribal memory, ceremonial codes, and the refined energy of couture. No repetition, no mass production: each object is a one-off, composed with natural materials and guided by the uniqueness of the plume itself.
There is no search for spectacle here. Only resonance. A desire to create pieces that move — not just with the body, but with the person.
Olijay doesn’t follow a tradition. He inhabits it, bends it, and lets it breathe.
INSTAGRAM: @olijaycreation