Introduction
"Beauty is not found in perfection, but in the moment it begins to break."
Beautiful Rupture is a group exhibition that explores the tension and harmony born at the threshold between beauty and destruction, form and disintegration, nature and artifice. Through distinct materials and visual vocabularies, artists Kelly Berg, Mark Acetelli, Moon Insoo, and Kimi Kim reveal the quiet violence and fragile truths that lie beneath the surface of the beautiful.
Kelly Berg evokes the power of shifting earth and volcanic eruptions — her paintings are charged with deep reds and fissured textures that speak to the sublime, overwhelming presence of nature. Mark Acetelli captures the serenity of the ocean, not as a passive subject, but as a contemplative surface teeming with silent depth and unspoken force.
Moon Insoo sculpts with concrete, using an industrial material to channel memory, erosion, and the scars of time embedded in urban life. Kimi Kim deconstructs the iconic Chanel bag in ceramic, transforming a symbol of luxury into fragile artifacts that question desire, illusion, and the commodification of beauty.
This exhibition does not portray rupture as an end, but as a beginning — a site of potential. Each artist invites us to consider how beauty is reshaped through breakage, tension, and transformation. A rupture is both collapse and emergence, fragility and power.
In Beautiful Rupture, we encounter that delicate moment when beauty trembles, fractures, and redefines itself.