The Jaunt and PARKIM  agency are proud to collaborate on an exhibition that blends cultures and backgrounds, materials and visions. By bringing together a series of female painters from the United States and Europe along with a series of female designers from Korea, we are excited to present you 힘. 

힘, pronounced “him,” means strength in Korean - 

a fitting title for this collection of female artists and designers whose bold creativity and vision expand contemporary visual culture. Their works embody both power and sensitivity - revealing strength not only as force or resistance, but as persistence, intuition, and care.Their work not only inspires but also empowers, carving space for new voices in art and design.

Seonna Hong (Los Angeles, United States, 1973)
Born and (mostly) raised in beautiful Southern California, Seonna Hong combines her personal narrative with broader visual storytelling, resulting in paintings that are mysteriously touching. Intertwining figurative painting within abstracted landscapes, she captures memories of childhood and the dreamy and sometimes horrific landscapes of our innermost thoughts.

Liz Flores (Chicago, United States, 1986)
Liz Flores is an American artist of Mexican and Cuban descent based in Chicago. Here she creates paintings and studies the human condition and female form, using movement and shapes as a mode of visual storytelling. Inspired by her heritage the colours in her artworks find root in her Latina culture.

Linnea Andersson (Gothenburg, Sweden, 1989)
In her paintings, Linnéa Andersson has an ongoing investigation of how to describe an emotion without words. Mediating a human language without a human expression, through the shapes and forms of abstract flora and fauna.

Mando Marie (Denver, United States, 1981)
In her graphic stencil artwork Mando has found herself a distinctive look and feel, a combination of nostalgia and storybook style imagery paired with her smart and subtle surreal feel. The imagery that draws you in quickly keeps your interest.

Lisa Congdon (Portland, United States, 1968)
While her own biography only states that ‘Illustrator and author Lisa Congdon is best known for her colorful, graphic drawings and hand lettering’, there is a lot more to it than that. Through a combination of activism, awareness and creativity, Lisa Congdon knows like no other to inspire a new generation.

Studio Chacha is a Seoul-based art-furniture studio founded in 2017, specialising in glass-based pieces that merge familiar materials with unfamiliar form and colour. Led by designer Cha Shin-sil, the studio explores layered colour, gradated glass and unconventional silhouettes to evoke an aesthetic that’s simultaneously ethereal and grounded. The vision is to present “a new sense of beauty by combining familiar materials in an unfamiliar way” — exploring materiality, light, and form to push the boundaries of furniture as art.

Greem Jeong is a Seoul-based South Korean artist and designer whose work bridges sculpture, furniture and spatial design. Educated in France and grounded in Korea, she creates interactive objects and installations that blur the lines between function and form—inviting curiosity and new ways of engaging with space. Her playful yet refined approach reflects a balance between Eastern sensibility and contemporary European design, resulting in works that feel both intimate and otherworldly.

Ok Kim is a Seoul-based Korean artist and designer who masterfully bridges heritage craft and contemporary design, specialising in the traditional lacquer technique known as ottchil. With Training in Wood Crafts and Furniture Design (at Pusan National University and Hongik University) and a three-year apprenticeship under master artisan Son Dae-Hyun in the ottchil method, she developed her acclaimed “Merge” series—vibrant, layered lacquered furniture pieces that evoke stone-stacking notions and preserve a Korean craft legacy. Her work reflects a deep commitment to both material ritual and sculptural form, asserting that through such labor–intensive process one can uncover not only color and texture but identity and continuity.

WKND Lab is a Seoul-based design duo founded by Eunji Jun and Halin Lee, which specializes in material research, object and furniture design, and art installations. Their work centers on material-driven narratives, exploring the relationships among design, humanity and the natural environment; they emphasize simple yet striking design, rich textures and bold coloration of materials. With each piece, WKND Lab seeks to not only achieve aesthetic appeal but also propose environmentally, culturally and socially conscious alternatives in design practice.

Hyunhee Kim also known as Keem Honey, is a Seoul-based designer whose work reinterprets traditional Korean interior objects—especially the “gyubang” (women’s inner-spaces) furniture of the Joseon Dynasty—through contemporary materials and forms. Her pieces use transparent and translucent materials to dissolve boundaries of interior vs. exterior and challenge gender-related spatial norms. By blending classical references with modern conceptual concerns—such as autonomy, visibility and daily ritual—she offers designs that are at once familiar and provocatively new.