NUVY KIM is a Milan-based painter, ceramic artist and Jewellery Designer, living and working in Milan for over twenty years.

For nearly two decades, Nuvy Kim has worked in high jewellery, bijoux and currently she serves as Jewellery Design Director at Versace.

Her practice has long revolved around the intimate relationship between object and body — how form frames identity, how ornament defines presence.

Jewellery, by nature, is an extension of the body. It enhances, protects, seduces, and declares. It is precise, controlled, and perfected.

Ceramics and paintings begin where jewellery ends.

Her sculptures retain the discipline of high jewellery — sensitivity to volume, tension, and balance — yet they deliberately fracture its perfection. Forms swell, constrict, and fold into ambiguous, bodily structures that question fixed gender definitions.

Under the name N12Y.3, the artist explores unstable territories between body, object, gender and interior space.

Working across ceramic and painting, N12Y.3 develops a continuous visual language through forms that resist fixed definition — organic yet architectural, sensual yet restrained, familiar yet slightly unsettling.

The ceramic works suggest fragments of anatomy without becoming literal, while the paintings extend these forms into psychological and spatial atmospheres.

Interior spaces become emotional states where silence, tension, memory and vulnerability take on physical presence.

Central to the practice is an interest in ambiguity and moments of hesitation — the instinct to look away and then look again.

Clay becomes a material for transformation: soft and vulnerable before hardening into permanence while retaining traces of its previous state.

Similarly, the paintings hold tension through layered surfaces, folds, shadows, and restrained colour fields.

Coming from a background in high jewellery and costume jewellery, the artist intentionally moves away from perfection and symmetry toward distortion, asymmetry and emotional complexity.

Together the works explore attraction and discomfort, intimacy and distance, containment and release.

These works are not answers — however shifting forms: layered memories, unstable emotions and ungendered bodies existing in transition.