Translation / Meekyoung Shin

Living and working in London and Seoul, Meekyoung Shin uses soap as her main material to attempt unique reinterpretation. In her work, Shin represents as specific images of ceramics and Buddhas her "translation" of various religious, historical, and cultural problems that she experiences as an

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Asian artist in the 21st century. And her reinterpretation gets agin "translated" by viewers in their distinct conditions and situations through the religious, historical, and cultural contexts in which they exist. With the everyday material of soap, Shin's work deals with penetration between civilizations, transference, question of originality, copy, and replication.

(Abstract from SAMUSO)

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