when you are forging, don't forget to close your eyes.
OU Jiun-You was born in Taiwan, currently lives and works in Taiwan/Germany.
With a social science background in international relations, she started her artistic practices mostly by self-taught in Taiwan since 2008. After working and teaching in the field of metalsmithing for some years, the interests of stone led her to start her MFA study in Hochschule Trier, Idar-Oberstein campus (DE) in 2015, and later on Erasmus exchange in the department of jewellery and blacksmithing, Estonian Academy of Arts (EE) from 2016 to 2017.
She has worked with anthropological methodologies and working methods: from a structural perspective to a symbolic perspective; from bricolage to liminality. As a bricoleur and an incompetent storyteller, she realizes her works with various media into jewellery, objects, sculptures, installations, and site-specific projects.
OU Jiun-You was born in Taiwan, currently lives and works in Taiwan/Germany.
With a social science background in international relations, she started her artistic practices mostly by self-taught in Taiwan since 2008. After working and teaching in the field of metalsmithing for some years, the interests of stone led her to start her MFA study in Hochschule Trier, Idar-Oberstein campus (DE) in 2015, and later on Erasmus exchange in the department of jewellery and blacksmithing, Estonian Academy of Arts (EE) from 2016 to 2017.
She has worked with anthropological methodologies and working methods: from a structural perspective to a symbolic perspective; from bricolage to liminality. As a bricoleur and an incompetent storyteller, she realizes her works with various media into jewellery, objects, sculptures, installations, and site-specific projects.