Bottles that transform into hedges, records that become a menacing dark wave of oil, thousands of pill bottles that form part of the design of a lamp, yogurt pots that pile up to draw the skyline of a big city.
Or more everyday things like peculiar alphabet books whose origin are obsolete keyboards that become a woven fabric with thousands of words. Almost any object in the hands of the artist Jean Shin can be recycled and given a new expressive opportunity, preventing it from being definitively lost or ending up polluting the tempestuous waters of the ocean.
The merit of Jean Shin's installations resides not in the fact of demonstrating his ability to transform waste into artistic material with which he creates ingenious sculptural pieces with which he transmits his concern for the environmental deterioration that is leading us as a civilization to a dead end, from which it is increasingly difficult to escape.
But in being able to articulate a coherent language that contains both an aesthetic and plastic lecture, through which he can articulate a discourse with empathetic capacity. As to seduce the viewer and subjectively transmits a specific idea on a particular topic that in the background creates a reflective aftertaste.
BIZARRE SCULPTURES WITH A MESSAGE OF ENVIRONMENTAL DENUNCIATION.
That allows him to create an opinion about, for example, the effects of living in a society where more and more voices criticize the unbridled consumption in which we live. Another of the qualities of his sculptures is that the observer is not limited to maintain a passive attitude to the work, inviting him to debate, challenging him to take an active stance, in this sense the touch is an elementary element as well as specific in the dialogue with the work enriching the information he perceives.
Although born in Seoul, South Korea, she spent most of her childhood in the United States, attending the Shin Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1999, after the completion of which she received a BFA and MS from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. He currently resides and has his studio in New York. Where he has become one of the most relevant names in the art scene, regularly participating in exhibitions organized by the galleries of the Big Apple.
READ IT IN SPANISH: El arte reciclado y activista del artista Jean Shin
In this sense, his work has been widely exhibited in major national and international museums, including solo exhibitions at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Arizona (2010), the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington DC (2009), the Fabric Workshop and the Philadelphia Museum (2006), and retrospective exhibitions such as the one dedicated to him by the Museum of Modern Art in New York (2004).
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