Min Gweon

Follies, and yet we still go on

A modernized textile folly, that functions as both interior product and a monument for neglected parts of city life.

It is inspired by domestic ‘abnormal’ events happen in everyday life, such as tiny cracks on street bricks, small ruined parts from the buildings, ripped-apart wallpapers, broken architectural elements in human lives. Those small, easily forgettable, broken architectural elements have been translated into Folly-a fake, mimic of real ruins to revoke romanticism in the 18c European landscape gardens- to celebrate the atonal fragments of daily life. Folly is a storyteller. It is a shallow mimic of real ruins, and the function is no more than decorative. However, it also reminds us of imperfection and mortality of human being. We accept our incompleteness, and we go on.

Min Gweon wants to remind people about their daily living surroundings, as if they are looking at a ‘behind the scene’ of life. It is usually covered, but when it’s ripped apart, you see the layers of raw materials that you didn’t realize that it was there. It’s about appreciation and awareness that I want to keep inside me as long as possible.

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