Time and motion

While many of us are so occupied with the future that we forget to live the present, Korean ceramic sculptor Yoonchung Park Kim indulges in the past and what's happening now. The California-based artist, for instance, uses spinning tops (pang-ee) - and the tracks they create - to symbolise the footprints we leave behind in life.

'Motion, time, age and decay' are momentarily paused and caught in stillness in her sculptures. A Seoul National University and University of California graduate, the 57-year-old's works also reflect the harmony and contradictions she finds between traditional ceramics in Korea and Western approaches to the art.

When studying her masters of fine arts at Berkeley in 1968, Kim began to view the subject of ceramic art in a very different light. To her dismay and confusion, it was everything that good art, in Korea, should not be. But the sculptor sought to resolve this conflict by starting afresh, thus leaving behind some of her preconceptions and what she had learnt about the art. Her move to the US marked the turning point in her career as an artist as well as the beginning of some serious soul searching. Today, this transformation and her reconciliation between the traditional and the contemporary is still evident in her sculptures.

Exhibition: Yoonchung Park Kim. Galeriasia, 6/F, One Lan Kwai Fong, Central. Tel: 2529 2598. 10.30am-7pm Mon-Sat. Apr 12-28.