Shatto Gallery, in collaboration with Gallery H, presents Reimagining the Moon Jar, a group exhibition featuring six Korean artists whose practices engage with the moon jar as both a historic form and a contemporary visual language. The exhibition brings together Chung Sook Sohn, Hajeong Lee Rogers, In Sook Park, Joong Sik Kim, Manchul Oh, and Yejin Shin, artists working across Korea, the United States, and Europe.
The Korean moon jar, or dalhangari, is one of the defining forms of Joseon-era white porcelain. Its luminous white surface, generous rounded volume, and subtle asymmetry embody an aesthetic grounded in restraint, balance, and natural form. Traditionally made by joining two separately thrown sections, each moon jar carries the quiet irregularities of the maker’s hand and the unpredictable effects of fire. Rather than pursuing geometric perfection, the form embraces variation, imperfection, and a sense of openness.
Reimagining the Moon Jar considers what happens when this historic form is taken beyond the vessel itself. Across painting, ceramics, porcelain, clay, textile sculpture, jogakbo, and mixed media, the six artists translate the moon jar through distinct material and conceptual approaches. Their works engage with memory, time, cultural exchange, process, and materiality, revealing how a centuries-old Korean form can continue to generate new images and meanings.
Reimagining the Moon Jar brings together six distinct approaches to a form deeply embedded in Korean visual culture. Rather than reproducing the moon jar as a symbol of the past, the exhibition considers its continuing relevance through contemporary practices shaped by different places, generations, and materials. Together, the works reveal the enduring power of a form defined not by perfection, but by balance, presence, and possibility.
