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In between, TRANSLATION
by MOT/ARTS
Location: MOT/ARTS
Artist(s): SHIN Meekyoung
Date: 6 Oct - 18 Nov 2012

Translation tell meaning from one language to another, meanwhile, it construct bridge from one thinking system, historical and cultural sign to another.

Classically, Art masters created their sculptures, potteries with etch-proof materials like gold, stone to resist time. However, Meekyoung Shin, made these in soap, which could be dissolved in water, to be bubble, to be soap water, or even to be invisible. Meekyoung Shin use soap to represent culture-trans, which was penetrate into one another gradually and unconsciously. However, the pieces and bits of Soap can be collected and recycle to be a new one, which insinuates culture- whatever traditional or modern, Europe or Asia, West or East- these difference in spaces and time, are supposed to be finally reunion to an integrity after a complex process of melting, copying and representing one another, this is also a silhouette of art.

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