Hyungshin Hwang makes furniture with polypropylene (PP) board, which is normally used as a material for moving boxes. If you heat up these boards after arranging them into a pile, the boards stick to each other as their surfaces melt. When they cool they become solid like stone, which is then used as a material in the Layered series products, including stools, tables and shelves. The structural forms and monotone colours of these products make it difficult to assume that they are made of plastic. However, if you take a closer look, you can clearly see the holes of plastic cardboard on the surface. Hwang is persisting with varied experiments in his recent work, which shows changes to choice of materials while also keeping the original form or applying one technique to different materials.  

from the [Interview] ‘Meticulously Layered Memories’ - ‘SPACE MAGAZINE’ SEP 2019

edited by Enhwa Choi