- Venue
- Haunch of Venison
- Location
Haunch of Venison presents Translation, an exhibition by Korean artist Meekyoung Shin. The exhibition is the artist’s first significant show at the gallery, which comprises sculptures derived from Shin’s evolving ‘Translation’ project.
Sculptural objects, once pieces of decorative tradition and telling of their place of origins become vessels traversing along a language, space and time continuum. ‘Translated Vases’ reflect the fluid and transient nature of their contents brought about by the ephemeral delicacy of material. Rather than using Chinese porcelain, vases are recast in Shin’s hands using soap and installed in the space along with the crates they travelled in. Here they possess the notion that ‘translation’ can allow the original form to survive across continents and history, suggesting the risk of being washed away, or becoming malleable, relative to voyage and destination.
‘Ghost’ series follows on from these ideas of transience whereby vases are wiped of their decorative elements, presented now as translucent vessels and arranged according to colour. The memory of their original form still lingers, yet is composed doubly so as each vases archipelago echo one another, stimulating divergent readings based on sensations separated in a new codified spectrum.
Existing in and through linguistic, cultural and visual passages, these sculptures (among others in the exhibition) see a renewal of forms negotiating between the past and present set in motion along fluid, divergent paths translation.
