Paju, South Korea šC South Korean sculptor Kim Yun Shin wields a chain saw with a quiet focus, refining a craft she?has honed over decades spent far from home.
Long overlooked in her home country, Kim, 91,?has more recently gained recognition as a pioneering artist, featuring in a sweeping retrospective at South Korea¡¯s esteemed Hoam Museum of Art. The solo exhibition, titled ¡°Two Be One,¡°?is the institution¡¯s first since its founding in 1982 to spotlight a woman artist, and includes some of Kim¡¯s signature abstract sculptures hewn from hardwood with her tool of choice.
¡°The saw is my body,¡± Kim says. She is in her studio in Paju, a city northwest of the capital Seoul. ¡°When I lift it and cut (the wood), it has to move exactly like me ¡ª the saw has to become me, and I have to become the saw.¡±
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