"'When cultures wrongly prize perfection over all else, we lose so much of what is truly beautiful - yet flawed - in the lived experience.'"
"'In assembling these fragments, I am not restoring what was lost - I am making something new from it. The fractures remain visible. And yet, together, they form a landscape of collective belonging - a persistence toward wholeness.'"
Jean Shin's installation, Celadon Landscape, at The Green-Wood Cemetery features nearly two tons of broken Korean ceramic shards. These fragments are reassembled into large-scale mosaic vessels, emphasizing the beauty of imperfection. The work serves as a metaphor for diaspora, highlighting themes of remembrance and resilience. By preserving visible fractures, Shin shifts focus from perfection to collective belonging, creating a new narrative from discarded materials. The installation is on view until January 17th, 2027, and reimagines the relationship between art and cultural identity.
Read at designboom | architecture & design magazine
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