Shinduk Kang’s interlocking characters sculpted in granite take the shape of endearing entities both in their coloristic softness but also in their textural interest. But, this is the earth principle that my choice of title suggests. Then there are also Kang’s videos, her filmy veils and her silkscreen prints on metal mesh that relate more to the insubstantial or heavenly. Together these pieces speak to Heaven and Earth as a theme not only because of their qualities, physicality and transparency, but also because her site specific installation combines these media suggesting the idea of having it all, anotherwords, heaven on earth.
Indeed, Kang’s installations address not only the current issues of sculpture but also expand the medium’s parameters, for critically, it is difficult to know whether to place her silk-screens in the three dimensional category or in the painted idiom. They occur in space by being placed in the middle of the gallery floor, like sculpture to interrelate with the viewer but they are flat panels, painted, yet unlike paintings they are double sided. Kang’s videos appear ghostlike in their eerie fluorescent glow and are used as sculpture placed behind her fabric veils thereby obscuring the clarity in our field of vision. They are not flat screens that are present for the purpose of conveying a specific artwork but rather they are televisions present as sculptures themselves. For this reason too, Kang challenges conventional ideas of sculpture taking it further than ever before and with an ease and simplicity of methodologies that can only arise from a vast store of experience.

Heaven and Earth, 2007