Kintsukuroi

By Chiara Dardani

Topic: Health

Medium: Object

Material: Ceramic, Lacquer

Institute: Politecnico di Milano

Year: a.a. 2017-2018

‘Kintsukuroi’ is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with golden lacquer. In this installation, this is a metaphor for depression and recovering from it. If such astounding beauty can emerge from the shards of a vase, could a similar transformation also be possible with the parts of us we believe are shattered beyond repair? ‘Wounds turn to wildflowers in time’.

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