ARTIST
MORÈ
ABOUT
Jiyeon Kang is a Seoul-based media artist working under the name Morè. Starting from the circle, the simplest form, and expanding it into an infinite visual language, she visualizes how happiness connects and spreads in digital environments. Her name carries a double meaning of the Korean "morae" — a grain of sand, and "more." A single grain is the smallest circle, able to expand into anything — her core principle. This principle of expansion is not hers alone; it recurs across art history and language. Islamic geometric patterns avoid human or animal forms, turning to ornament radiating from a center to express God and the spread of faith. This structure leaves traces in language too: "circle" reaches beyond a shape to mean a group bound by shared ties, as in "a circle of friends," a verb meaning to enclose, and the loop of good energy known as a "virtuous circle." Starting from a form, gathering people, enclosing, returning larger — this is the core of the language Morè explores.
