Jane Jin Kaisen’s works, Guardians (2024) and Burial of This Order (2022), offer poetic and political meditations on death, ritual, and collective memory. Grounded in the landscape of Jeju Island, Guardians (2024) portrays a group of children bringing traditional funerary figures to an ancestral grave, symbolizing the interconnectedness of nature, humanity, and the spiritual realm. The work addresses themes of loss, memory, and transformation, embodying the healing and transformative nature of time as it reflects the fleeting moments of life and the peaceful passage into the next world. In Burial of This Order (2022) a group of people set out to bury an unjust world by performing a burial. They march through the ruins of a decaying resort, symbolizing the collapse of capitalist modernity and challenging the power structures that dominate both past and present. Age and gender roles are subverted, the coffin is draped in dark camouflage colours and the portrait of the deceased is replaced with a black mirror. In a moment of fervor, the procession dismantles the scaffolding
of the old order, creating space for new, subversive stories to emerge—at the crossroads between funeral ritual, political protest, and carnival performance.
Detailed information: https://janejinkaisen.com/
Born in Korea, in 1980. Lives and works in Denmark.
