Yo-E Ryou (South Korea)

Yo-E Ryou (b. 1987, Seoul) lives and works on Jeju Island, South Korea. Working across sound, video, installation, performance, and drawing, she traces how embodied knowledge and ecological memory circulate through water.

Rooted in hydrofeminist thought, her practice approaches water not only as a conceptual framework but as a lived, elemental condition that reshapes how bodies and environments remember and relate. Rather than producing singular narratives or fixed representations, she works with modes of transmission, where sensations move from body to body and take different forms through experience.

Attuned to island geographies and tidal rhythms, her works unfold as evolving constellations rather than closed forms. She runs Unlearning Space, an artist-led platform for collaborative research and exchange connecting island-based and translocal practices.