Kyungmi Shin: Origin Stories at Craft Contemporary Exhibition Walkthrough

Kyungmi Shin: Origin Stories at Craft Contemporary Exhibition Walkthrough with Artist

Sunday, August 18, 2024
Craft Contemporary
5814 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90036
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM PST

GYOPO is excited to co-present with Craft Contemporary, a walkthrough of the exhibition, Kyungmi Shin: Origin Stories, on view at the museum until September 8th.

Kyungmi Shin: Origin Stories organized by jill moniz explores Shin’s visual storytelling as a Korean American woman who engages indigeneity as a site of knowledges and creativity. She uses personal archives and figures from Korean shamanism to question the navigational forces that chinoiserie and “the Orient” play in empire, colonization, religion, gender and importantly love. Shin layers photography, painterly traditions, ethno-mythological symbolism and porcelain to engender a generous, new imaginary that centers rather than elides and holds space for diverse journeys across space and time.