[01] The name Deu-meu

What the name means

Deu-meu is the Korean name for the water vessels placed outside wooden palace buildings to guard them from fire.

Like its name, I live as someone who writes,

to quiet the fires within and to tend to life.

Deu-meu dreams of letters beyond the page.

As hanji paper holds specks of dust as pattern,

the work carries a warmth that embraces flaws, through Hangeul and hanji.

What the name means

Deu-meu is the Korean name for the water vessels placed outside wooden palace buildings to guard them from fire.

Like its name, I live as someone who writes,

to quiet the fires within and to tend to life.

Deu-meu dreams of letters beyond the page.

As hanji paper holds specks of dust as pattern,

the work carries a warmth that embraces flaws, through Hangeul and hanji.

[02] What I do

Writing, making, and reading together

Deu-meu is a writer working with essays, artist’s books, and hanji.
The work records small moments of everyday life and the voice within,
then unfolds that writing again as paper, books, and exhibitions.

Through writing workshops, reading groups, book talks, and lectures,
Deu-meu keeps making room for people to read and write together.

[03] Selected history

Recognition & selection

2025 Innovation Print Awards (IPA) Global first prize · Creativity Award — Island, Alone
2025 Featured artist, May issue of RE.B.EPOQ
2024 Arts Council Korea creative support selection
2024 Writer in residence, Yeonhui Literature Creative Village
2024 B-PLATFORM LAB Artist
2023 Emerging Artist creative seed support selection
2022 Essay debut through a New Year literary competition
2022 Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation first artistic creation support — The Sea Handed Me ㅁㅇ
2021 Gyeonggi Content Agency Hidden Writer selection

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[04] Exhibitions & art book fairs

Where the books have been

2025 Feel The Book, London
2025 Dreaming with Life, Namsan Gallery, Seoul
2025 REUNION OF SENSES, Leon Gallery, Seoul
2024 Island, Alone — first solo exhibition, B-PLATFORM LAB, Seoul
2024 Korean Book Fair, Komagata Gallery, Japan
2024 Taipei Art Book Fair, Taipei
2024 Unlimited Edition, Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul

[05] Now

Deu-meu these days

2025– Monthly creative contributions to RE.B.EPOQ art magazine
2025 Sumsum creative club at Seoul public hanok venues
2025 A Writer’s Bookshop one-day workshop at Seri Bookshop
2024– Running the reading groups Deum and Pum
2024 Reading and writing groups at Yeonhui Literature Creative Village

[06] Vision

Letters beyond the page

As hanji holds specks of dust as pattern,
I want to make writing and books that embrace their flaws.

I hope to stay close to places where people read and write,
so that more people can record their own voices.