{"product_id":"heji-shin-the-lone-survivor","title":"Heji Shin - The Lone Survivor","description":"\u003cp\u003eHeji Shin\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Lone Survivor\u003c\/em\u003e, 2023\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThree-color screenprint on Coventry Rag paper\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e20 x 16 inches (50.8 x 40.6 cm)\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFramed: 22 1\/4 x 18 1\/4 x 1 1\/2 inches (56.5 x 46.4 x 3.8 cm)\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEdition of 30, 6 AP\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePrinted by Du-Good Press, New York\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublished by 52 Walker\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOscillating fluidly between the commercial and fine-art realms, New York–based artist Heji Shin (b. 1976) has skirted the boundaries of convention, creating images that challenge judgments of taste vis-à-vis fashion, celebrity, and sexuality. Revealing our scopophilic tendencies while refusing to essentialize or pass moral judgment on her subjects, Shin’s eye mines the prohibited and the liminal to deconstruct notions of propriety.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe present print relates to work created by Shin for \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.52walker.com\/exhibitions\/heji-shin-the-big-nudes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eTHE BIG NUDES\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, the artist’s solo exhibition at 52 Walker, which takes its name from Helmut Newton's 1981 career-making body of work known as Big Nudes. In her series, Shin recasts Newton's erotic subjects as fleshy pink pigs who assume the poses of female fashion models, their epidermal layers and hair appearing uncannily humanoid. This body of work troubles and transforms our ideas of how the genre of portraiture purports to reveal alternative versions of the self, shifting the paradigms of what constitutes the \"physical\" and casting doubt on how we perceive so-called reality on different levels. In \u003cem\u003eThe Lone Survivor\u003c\/em\u003e, Shin’s first ever screenprint, the artist additionally references Andy Warhol’s well-known silkscreened paintings that often depicted celebrities and politicians as well as her series of large-scale studio portraits featuring controversial hip-hop superstar Kanye West. The title refers to the fact that the pig featured in the print is from a meat farm in upstate New York.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"52 Walker","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44211783762160,"sku":"","price":2000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/0361\/4448\/files\/SHIHE0036.1_FRAMED.jpg?v=1694640711","url":"https:\/\/cart.52walker.com\/products\/heji-shin-the-lone-survivor","provider":"52 Walker","version":"1.0","type":"link"}