As part of the Paper Lab’ers Masterclass series, we are honored to host Rina Yoon, whose work engages with paper as a material in constant negotiation between tradition, process, and expanded form.

This session introduces a body of knowledge shaped through direct contact with material—where making is not approached as a fixed methodology, but as an evolving condition. Yoon’s practice moves across disciplines, situating paper beyond its conventional role as a surface, and instead as a responsive structure—capable of holding tension, memory, and change through repetition, touch, and time.

Within the framework of Paper Lab Berlin, this masterclass opens a precise and necessary dialogue: how does a material rooted in a specific cultural and historical context continue to shift when placed into a contemporary field of making? How does one carry knowledge forward without fixing it, and how can process itself become the site where meaning is constructed?

Rather than separating tradition from experimentation, Yoon’s approach allows both to coexist. The logic of hanji—its fibers, its formation, its sensitivity to handling—becomes a point of departure, not a conclusion. From there, the material extends into new conditions, including her later explorations in paper casting, where surface begins to operate as form, and structure emerges through accumulation, repetition, and controlled variation.

This session is not positioned as a technical demonstration alone, but as a reflection on material intelligence—how paper, when approached with attention and persistence, begins to inform direction, decision, and outcome. It invites participants to reconsider how they engage with their own processes, and how material itself can act as a guide within the act of making.