Minjun Shin



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A Monument for Those Who Cannot Be Remembered

2025
Paraffin casting
Dimension variable














This work focuses on creating a new kind of monument, using as prototypes the objects that the four performers/practitioner of the Living Practice project brought to the workshop and the items recalled during interviews that evoked memories of the deceased. The resulting monument leans upon itself, clustered in fragments as well as in whole forms.

One way death is remembered socially is through monuments. The state has traditionally built monuments—often in the form of statues—to enshrine memories that sustain national ideology (major wars, national crises overcome). Civil society, in turn, has produced counter-monuments to preserve memories the community must not forget, such as the Sewol Ferry and Itaewon disasters in Korea

But when it comes to deaths that are social yet appear in the form of individual deaths—such as suicide—monuments cannot be made. In such deaths I search for social causes rather than purely personal origins, yet I find no way to reflect upon them communally or to leave them as shared memory. Thus I began to imagine new ways of attaching personal deaths to the collective, attempting to construct a monument for those who cannot be memorialized.


Prototypes for work
Minjun Shin
- Majiranger figure 
- Kamen Rider Kabuto figure 
- Cake (model)

Yujin Lim
 - Lamborghini (model) 
- Airplane (model) 
- Souvenir from Hawaii 
- Sparkling water

Sewan Yoon
- Seven Kirby figures 
- Handmade Kirby sculpture 
- Toy robot

Yewon Choi
- Telephone 
- Buddha statue 
- Lotus lantern (model)