Salon Art & Design, 2025: LIMINAL MONUMENTS

For Salon Art & Design 2025, Charles Burnand Gallery presents Liminal Monuments: The Edge of Becoming. At the centre of Liminal Monuments stands a monumental 20-foot cast bronze dining table by Myungtaek Jung, a work of overwhelming presence that embodies the very essence of the exhibition. Sculptural yet functional, permanent yet alive with surface detail, it is an object that asserts itself not only through scale but through the gravity of material and form.

 

Around this defining piece, the exhibition presents works that reside in a state of tension, between permanence and impermanence, solidity and dissolution. These pieces inhabit the space between resolution and ambiguity, proposing a vision of design in motion: unsettled, transitional, and transformative.

 

Where 'Ethereal Monoliths' dissolved weight into light, Liminal Monuments holds the viewer at the threshold - inviting them to witness form at the moment of becoming. Monumentality here is not fixed but suspended, suggesting both what has been and what is still to emerge.

In this in-between state, design becomes an act of suspension - a pause where materials reveal their capacity for fragility, strength, and change. These are monuments not to permanence, but to process, presence, and possibility.