Design Miami, 2025: Monuments of Ether

As Design Miami celebrates its 20th edition under the curatorial theme Make.Believe, Charles Burnand Gallery responds with a bold vision of the monumental reimagined, not as an expression of mass or scale, but as a conjuring of memory, atmosphere, and belief. Monuments of Ether invites viewers into a liminal realm where form becomes fiction, and material becomes myth.

Featuring new works by DEGLAN, Fabrikr, Marc Fish, Myungtaek Jung, Kyeok Kim, Peter Lane, Jungin Lee, Yanxiong Lin, Julian Mayor, Yaerin Pyun, Weon Rhee, Studio Furthermore, Jean-Gabriel Neukomm and Jan Waterston, the exhibition unites artists whose practices push beyond function toward the speculative and the sublime. Each work exists in a state of suspension between the physical and the imagined, presence and absence. In this space…in the ether…belief and materiality merge.

From charred Iroko wood and carbon-lacquered surfaces to dichroic metals and layered hanji paper, these are not monuments to the past, but artefacts of a future unearthed. In the spirit of Make.Believe, Monuments of Ether proposes a new kind of monumentality: one that lingers, floats, and refuses to settle…a space where design and material is reimagined.