nawa na sai is a textile-based creative lab founded by yooj kim, a seoul-raised, new york-based artist. guided by a vision to cultivate a space where material experimentation shapes the future of craft, the lab brings traditional techniques into dialogue with contemporary material exploration. that inquiry expands into textiles, objects, and collectible tools. each one carrying the same throughline: belonging, and how memory passes through material.
nawa na sai’s current study is rooted in the conversation between hanji and ott. the amalgamation of their history and materiality brings forth dimensions neither material holds alone. with the in-depth research and unprecedented experimentation of these two materials, each work reveals that the traces we find in materiality are actually echoes of where we came from and what we are becoming.