Kintsugi
Winning project
Ephemeral art installation in public space
Jardins du monde en mouvement,
Cité Internationale Universitaire, Paris, France, April 2024
Cork blocks, reused broom handles, brass, tree trunk, steel,
10 m length, 8 m width, 2.5 m height
The concept of this installation is rooted in a Japanese craft technique: Kintsugi. Literally meaning "golden joinery", it involves repairing broken ceramics with tree sap tinted with gold.
It is the art of resilience, an ode to imperfections, that enhances an object by highlighting its scars.Applied on the scale of a tree, this craft becomes, through the artwork, a proposal for reflection on regeneration.
Developing around a tree in the park, the work mimics, in plan, the patterns of scars or cracks in the ground left by the roots of the living being, as if the central tree became the impact point of the fracture. The project extrudes the roots, transforming them into a temporary architecture that reveals the invisible connections of the tree to its environment.
