Seongsan Art Hall

SHIN Min, Archangels, 2023, pencil on paper, 165 × 55 × 60 cm, 140 × 60 × 52 cm, 172 × 66 × 65 cm

SHIN Min uses potato sacks, a byproduct of labor, to create sculptures in the form of female service workers. This series of sculptures has its genesis in the artist’s stint as a worker at McDonald’s, when she saved discarded frozen potato sacks and glued them together in layers. The hair nets worn by SHIN’s workers, as a tool of labor and element of intersectionality used only by female workers, serves both as a marker for such workers to identify one another and as a symbol that unites them as one. If a sculpture depicting a laborer can liberate the fragmented female worker from their human position, Archangels promise to join hands in prayer and struggle, committing to guard and protect the love, justice, and solidarity they share between them, even into the divine realm.